Re: $@ and set -u

[Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@xxxxxxxx>]

> Actually, $? and $! are the only special parameters other than $*
> and $@ that can be used when unset if -u is on, so I wouldn't mind
> if those two were treated as the special case rather than $* and $@,
> but probably the wording will be simpler with $* and $@ as the
> special case, e.g.:
> 
>     "The shell shall write a message to standard error and immediately exit
>     when it tries to expand an unset parameter other than the '@' and '*'
>     special parameters."

I will change bash back to doing this.  I would like to again request text
in the rationale that notes we are deciding to not perpetuate historical
practice.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/