From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <zsh-workers-return-15680-mason-zsh=primenet.com.au@sunsite.dk>
Received: (qmail 14582 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2001 18:25:50 -0000
Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30)
  by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 22 Aug 2001 18:25:50 -0000
Received: (qmail 29009 invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2001 18:25:43 -0000
Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
X-No-Archive: yes
X-Seq: 15680
Received: (qmail 28998 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2001 18:25:42 -0000
X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer david.siemens.de)
From: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:25:37 +0400 (MSD)
X-X-Sender:  <bor@itsrm2.mow.siemens.ru>
Subject: Re: Quoted parameter parsing glitch
In-Reply-To: <1010822165904.ZM24041@candle.brasslantern.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.4.33.0108222223100.5012-100000@itsrm2.mow.siemens.ru>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Bart Schaefer wrote:

>
> } Shell should not hang, but please note it is invalid as per POSIX.
> } Double-quotes and braces must match.
>
> Zsh 4 (and ksh) is supposed to accept double-quotes inside ${...} inside
> double-quotes; the braces act as an extra level of quoting so that the
> inner quotes can nest in the outer ones.  I don't know what POSIX says
> about that.
>

As I said - they must match. "${foo:-""}" is valid but "${foo:-"}" - not.
Neither is "${foo:-\"}". You cannot quote braces or double quotes in this
case. They must match (opening - closing).

-andrej