$ln could have quotes in the description. For example "Run tests but don't do fail"Those are not properly handled today, since eval will complain about unmatched quotes

About the current code:

   print -n "'${default_target}:(Default target) ' "
The extra space after the ')' is no needed. It causes no big harm, but it's not needed.


Germán Riaño, Ph. D. http://GermanRiano.com Seattle, WA, USA 

    On Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 06:41:03 PM PST, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:  
 
 On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 5:28 PM German Riano <griano@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I mean '-r', not '-q'.  In other words, this seems to work: 'print -rn "'$ln' ". But (qq) looks better

Is there a reason $ln could not have any single-quotes in it?

The other thing puzzling me a little, is why this line (original source)

  print -n "'${default_target}:(Default target) ' "

has a space both inside and outside the closing single quote?  Why are
both needed?  Whereas this

  print -n "'$ln' "

has a space only following the single quote.  Does $ln always already
end in a space?

I don't have and have never used ant.