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Re: Discrepancy in IFS handling (zsh is POSIX compliant)

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From: Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>
To: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Discrepancy in IFS handling (zsh is POSIX compliant)
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2023 15:20:18 -0400
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2023, at 4:16 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> I think everyone can agree POSIX is not clear about this.

I do agree.  It looks like a situation where everyone involved was
already familiar with the intended behavior (as per Chet Ramey [1])
and baked their assumptions into the drafted text, leaving it less
explicit than it should have been.

For the curious, a bug report has been opened on the Austin Group
defect tracker [2].

  [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2023-03/msg00175.html
  [2]: https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1649

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References:
- Discrepancy in IFS handling (zsh is POSIX compliant)
  - From: Felipe Contreras
- Re: Discrepancy in IFS handling (zsh is POSIX compliant)
  - From: Lawrence Velázquez
- Re: Discrepancy in IFS handling (zsh is POSIX compliant)
  - From: Felipe Contreras

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