I thought we touched upon this also in discussing adding $'...', with the
resolution the arguments were WORDs in the grammatical sense and to be
scanned that way with regards to quoting. This would supercede that clause in
221, as the standard choosing between conflicting interpretations instead of
leaving it unspecified.
In a message dated 6/20/2017 9:37:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
g...@opengroup.org writes:
Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote, on 20 Jun
2017:
>
> I would like to get a confirmation on how this expression:
>
> "${xxx-"a b c"}"
>
> is to be understood.
This was discussed when we worked on bug 221, and is made explicitly
unspecified by the resolution of that bug (to be applied in Issue 8).
See http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=221#c399
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