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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: [ast-users] How to keep single quotes from confusing 
ksh -n
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> I'm not completely understanding the logic of doing this-- is the
> thought that if someone puts whitespace in, they must have really
> meant to have a multi-line string?
> 
> An aside: this is only an issue for me because nmake's default rules
> run "ksh -n" on shell scripts before installing them.  And because I'm
> a bit OCD about keeping linting tools happy with my code.
> 
> Jeff
> 

I don't remember the exact logic, but over the years it has caught
several bugs.

I will a note to revist this (and many improve the logic), for ksh93v.

David Korn
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