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Subject: Re: On "the usual behaviour" of empty array elements
From: Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> w=
rote:

> Far more interesting than the retention of empty array elements in double
> quotes, I think, is that empty array elements are NOT retained when the
> array parameter reference is NOT in quotes.  (This is intended to mimic
> one useful effect of word splitting without bringing in all the other
> effects.)

This behavior has really surprised me in the past.  I=E2=80=99m guessing
there=E2=80=99s no way to remove this behavior?