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. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
