Re: [SOLVED] Libtool/zsh quoting problem: a zsh... bug?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 20:28 +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Wayne Davison wrote:
> > One kluge idea for bourne-shell emulation mode:  automatically add an
> > invisible global alias for ${1+"@"} (i.e. don't list it if the user asks
> > for a list of aliases).  We'd also want to make sure that we allow the
> > user to turn it into a visible global alias if they manually add one.
> > This would just serve to improve our bourne-shell emulation without
> > trying to fix the underlying problem.
> 
> I'm sure it would have to be invisible...  an extra global alias no one
> is expecting is neither here nor there, as far as I can see, but a
> random invisible change in syntax (applying only to a single form of
> many possible variants) is.

I completely reversed the sense of the first sentence, as the rest
should make clear: I meant I'm not sure it would have to be invisible.

pws




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