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From: Greg Klanderman <gak@klanderman.net>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: treatment of empty strings - why is this not a bug?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:28:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bpu8wbz8.fsf@klanderman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090113220810.5ee564eb@pws-pc> (Peter Stephenson's message of "Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:08:10 +0000")

>>>>> Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> writes:

>   For historical reasons, the usual behaviour that empty array elements
>   are retained inside double quotes is disabled for arrays generated
>   by splitting; hence the following:

Hi Peter, also could you please address my original question: when the
decision that unquoted parameter expansions in zsh should not undergo
field splitting was made, why was the behavior of dropping empty
strings retained?

thanks,
Greg


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-15 20:28 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 [this message]
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
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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