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Re: On "the usual behaviour" of empty array elements

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From: Nikolai Weibull <now@xxxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: On "the usual behaviour" of empty array elements
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 09:09:16 +0200
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On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Far more interesting than the retention of empty array elements in double
> quotes, I think, is that empty array elements are NOT retained when the
> array parameter reference is NOT in quotes.  (This is intended to mimic
> one useful effect of word splitting without bringing in all the other
> effects.)

This behavior has really surprised me in the past.  I’m guessing
there’s no way to remove this behavior?

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- On "the usual behaviour" of empty array elements
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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