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Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.9.0 Subject: Re: Discrepancy in IFS handling (zsh is *not* POSIX compliant) To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: Content-language: en-US From: Ray Andrews In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Seq: 28998 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: On 2023-03-30 05:10, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Seems weird that a variable called Internal Field Separator is not a > *separator*, but a terminator. > > I'm changing the subject to reflect that. Just some unwanted commentary:  Should one need to be a technical lawyer to decide this?  If one pointedly adds another separator/terminator/delimiter/ender or whatever one might call it, one has probably done so for a reason and that reason would almost inevitably be that one intends to add another field even if empty. Thus any shell the ignores such a character is throwing away syntax space and acceding to the idea that characters in code can be ignored -- which might in very limited situations be admissible but not very often.  So if zsh did other than it does and I crashed into that while writing something, I'd foam at the mouth.  So zsh is the good-guy here IMHO.  Practicality should trump legality almost every time.