Re: treatment of empty strings - why is this not a bug?

[Greg Klanderman <gak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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