[Haskell-cafe] [offtopic] UNIX Shell (was: GHC RTS question)

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Feb 24, 2010, at 05:19 , Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
> Well, this agrees with POSIX. So still I don't see the difference
> between "$@" and ${1+"$@"}.


The difference is that Unix /bin/sh predates POSIX, and on systems  
that usefully support a notion of backward compatibility (nostly  
commercial, because (1) they have installed user bases that predate  
POSIX and (2) they actually think it's worthwhile to support said user  
bases) /bin/sh uses the traditional behavior that "$@" expands to ""  
if there are no arguments.  (This is "stupid" but consistent, another  
concept that seems to have been thrown to the wolves.)

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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