From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16951 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2000 23:10:38 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 21 Jul 2000 23:10:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 28844 invoked by alias); 21 Jul 2000 23:10:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12345 Received: (qmail 28834 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2000 23:10:25 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <000721161020.ZM3894@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:10:20 -0700 In-Reply-To: <000721152233.ZM3870@candle.brasslantern.com> Comments: In reply to "Bart Schaefer" "_arguments parsing of --help output" (Jul 21, 3:22pm) References: <000721152233.ZM3870@candle.brasslantern.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail Lite (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: _arguments parsing of --help output MIME-Version: 1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Jul 21, 3:22pm, Bart Schaefer wrote: > > I'm also curious in what circumstances the code to "... split the result > again at newlines after joining the old array elements with newlines > between them" ever makes a difference? It strikes me as redundant. To answer myself ... it eliminates empty array elements, which probably don't matter because they won't match the `-' prefix and so compadd will discard them; but it's probably cleaner to explicitly squelch them.