From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
To: gak@klanderman.net
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: treatment of empty strings - why is this not a bug?
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:26:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d460de70901161526l43ce529ai32a0613abb456e09@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m363kfvy3u.fsf@klanderman.net>
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 20:40, Greg Klanderman <gak@klanderman.net> wrote:
> I cannot believe it's widely used, except in legacy scripts that
> predate array parameters. Why would you put an empty string into a
> variable unless you wanted it there? I don't see any reason you'd
> ever want the current behavior in a new script, and any existing
> script should just emulate to the broken behavior.
Existing scripts tend to run in odd places, often without anyone
around who can still maintain them. Such a change could have very
bad effects, possibly without anyone noticing (in time).
That is a real problem and happens far too often, no need to make
it worse.
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-16 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-13 7:32 Greg Klanderman
2009-01-13 19:24 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-01-13 22:08 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-01-15 20:11 ` Greg Klanderman
2009-01-15 20:29 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-01-16 10:02 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-01-15 20:28 ` Greg Klanderman
2009-01-15 20:34 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-01-16 4:19 ` Bart Schaefer
2009-01-16 17:35 ` Greg Klanderman
2009-01-16 17:55 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-01-16 19:40 ` Greg Klanderman
2009-01-16 23:26 ` Richard Hartmann [this message]
2009-01-17 3:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2009-01-17 3:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2009-01-17 5:31 ` Greg Klanderman
2009-01-17 17:53 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-05-17 4:55 PATCH: make PROMPT_SP end-of-line marker configurable Greg Klanderman
2009-05-17 17:27 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-05-17 18:04 ` Greg Klanderman
2009-05-17 19:23 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-05-18 1:00 ` Greg Klanderman
2009-05-18 18:27 ` Greg Klanderman
[not found] <gak@klanderman.net>
2009-06-26 20:40 ` bug in ztrftime(): '%e' and '%f' specifiers swapped Greg Klanderman
2009-06-26 21:23 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-06-26 21:57 ` Greg Klanderman
2010-02-05 17:01 have '&' automatically disown? Greg Klanderman
2010-02-05 17:33 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-02-05 17:36 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-02-06 3:26 ` Greg Klanderman
2010-02-07 18:20 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-02-07 21:06 ` Greg Klanderman
2010-02-07 21:34 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-02-07 22:36 ` Bart Schaefer
2010-09-02 14:57 ` Greg Klanderman
2010-09-05 19:11 ` Bart Schaefer
2010-09-06 1:50 ` Greg Klanderman
2010-02-07 21:59 ` Mikael Magnusson
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