Eric Blake wrote> On 08/04/2010 09:18 AM, John Lumby wrote:
>
> >
> > Re the statement
> >
> > since "$e" is quoted, it must not be elided
> >
> > I don't think that is correct. In fact "$e" *must* be elided -
> > because you juxtaposed it with the next token. eliding and quoting are
> > orthogonal.
>
> Your statement is confusing to me. Here, in more detail, is exactly
> what I meant (and what I though I implied in the first case):
>
> ...
>
> Because "$e" is quoted, the resulting empty string must not be elided
> during word splitting.
>
I see - thanks. I was not aware of that effect of quoting.
But I see you are correct.
>
> ...
>
> Why do you find that interesting? There is NO word splitting in
> assignment contexts, so the effect of
Again I stand corrected, thanks. I thought an unquoted blank would terminate
an assignment value.
Maybe I was confusing tokenization before substitution with word splitting
after substitution.
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