Re: [SOLVED] Libtool/zsh quoting problem: a zsh... bug?

[Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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You do not need to Cc me, I am reading list every now and then :)

>
>     Could you please point me to where the standard says that the
> splitting shouldn't be done after that particular expansion? I've
> been searching with no success :((( The only thing I've found is that
> when a parameter expansion occurs in double quotes, field splitting
> shall not be done in the result, except for "@".
>
>     The problem is that libtool doesn't use "${1+... but just $1+...,
> without quotes, so the splitting *should* be done. That's why I think
> bash is wrong here and zsh is right.
>

<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_05_01> 
combined with semantic of ${var+word}: 
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_02>

"$@" never does word splitting; and ${var+word} is replaced with result of 
_expansion_ of word. Word in this case is "$@" ...

- -andrey
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