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

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: treatment of empty strings - why is this not a bug?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:34:27 +0000
In-reply-to: Message from Greg Klanderman <gak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> of "Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:28:11 EST." <m3bpu8wbz8.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Greg Klanderman wrote:
> 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?

No idea; this is very ancient history right from the shell's origins.
It's useful to be able to do this separately from splitting words, but
that's not an answer.

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Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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References:
- Re: treatment of empty strings - why is this not a bug?
  - From: Greg Klanderman

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