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Re: print built-in doesn't print this.

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: jdh <dhenman@xxxxxxxxx>, Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: print built-in doesn't print this.
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:31:14 -0800
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On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 11:33 AM Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> print has standard option syntax, so you need to terminate
> lists of options (even if they're empty) with "--".

True statement but I think something else is going on here.

% set "--------" a b c
% print $argv
a b c

Zsh's generic option parser is consuming any number of consecutive
hyphens as "--".  That's probably not right.

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