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From: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
To: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: What's the reasoning behind z & s returning nular for empty input?
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 09:40:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKc7PVBi-9aS18pTN7t7iYz2F6Voj8hTu9bDB5NAHSSquwCwew@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN=4vMpOPy_kecd_EweP7OL5RJUpBNbfAcJUtYxbHPZZq0UV-g@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 at 09:22, Roman Perepelitsa
<roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 9:11 AM Sebastian Gniazdowski
> <sgniazdowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the analysis. The additional problem is that quoted but
> > @-lacking s-flag should still elide the empty elements, as the manual
> > states. So this is an intentional exception and I wonder why it has
> > been added?
>
> Here's the passage from zshexpn:

Yes, I was also referring to this fragment, however it states that the
empty elements should be removed, and even – that they should be
removed more eagerly, so I still wonder why produce a nular for an
empty input?

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Sebastian Gniazdowski
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-09  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-09  7:26 Sebastian Gniazdowski
2019-11-09  7:50 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2019-11-09  7:52   ` Roman Perepelitsa
2019-11-09  8:11   ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2019-11-09  8:22     ` Roman Perepelitsa
2019-11-09  8:40       ` Sebastian Gniazdowski [this message]
2019-11-09  8:52         ` Roman Perepelitsa
2019-11-09  9:09           ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2019-11-09 14:33       ` Peter Stephenson

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