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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
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Comments: In reply to Oliver Kiddle <opk@u.genie.co.uk>
        "PATCH: _next_label losing empty arguments" (May 22,  7:12pm)
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On May 22,  7:12pm, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> Subject: PATCH: _next_label losing empty arguments
> 
> > set -A a - 1 2 3
> > echo $#a
> 4
> > echo $a[1]
> 
> Surely, a[1] should not be empty: it should either be '-' or ...

It *is* '-'.

What do you get from `echo -` ?