From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21386 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2009 20:28:26 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 Jan 2009 20:28:26 -0000 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sunsite.dk does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: (qmail 65876 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2009 20:28:22 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 15 Jan 2009 20:28:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 4683 invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2009 20:28:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 26317 Received: (qmail 4673 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2009 20:28:16 -0000 Received: from bifrost.dotsrc.org (130.225.254.106) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 15 Jan 2009 20:28:16 -0000 Received: from QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.96]) by bifrost.dotsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1792880271F0 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:28:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from OMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.59]) by QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 3tC91b0041GhbT859wUD5q; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:28:13 +0000 Received: from smtp.klanderman.net ([98.217.254.247]) by OMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 3wUC1b00L5M2Np63TwUD7J; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:28:13 +0000 Received: from lwm.klanderman.net (unknown [192.168.100.50]) by smtp.klanderman.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78EF1B30148 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:28:11 -0500 (EST) Received: by lwm.klanderman.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 56E7D9FC5E5; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:28:11 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Klanderman To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: treatment of empty strings - why is this not a bug? Reply-To: gak@klanderman.net Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:28:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090113220810.5ee564eb@pws-pc> (Peter Stephenson's message of "Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:08:10 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (linux) References: <18796.17298.94642.461735@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20090113192409.0c21909a@pws-pc> <20090113220810.5ee564eb@pws-pc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/8869/Thu Jan 15 18:37:21 2009 on bifrost X-Virus-Status: Clean >>>>> Peter Stephenson 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