Re: Zsh 3 and ${1+"$@"} (Was: [GNU Autoconf 2.53] testsuite.log: 126 failures)

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

"Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> On Apr 9, 12:30pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> }
> } By the way, I'm sure this is horribly incomplete at best --- and
> } paramsubst() is too grotesque for me to understand it --- but, just so I
> } understand what is going on, what is the problem with (deliberately
> } expanded the context):
> 
> Re-read the comment: "this leaves the unquoted substrings unsplit."  If
> you turn off spbreak there, then ${=1+some words here} becomes broken.

No, it doesn't, because that uses (spbreak = 2), hence the test.

> } +		if (spbreak == 1)
> } +		    spbreak = 0;

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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