Re: [jsdl-wg] jsdl specification 0.9.3. (draft 14)

10 Mar 2005

      On 10 Mar 2005, at 12:46, Karl Czajkowski wrote:
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On Mar 10, Michel Drescher loaded a tape reading:
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I do not understand this.  Empty strings are valid arguments on many
platforms, so no collapsing should be possible. In other words:
<Arguments>
  <Argument>arg1</Argument>
</Arguments>
and
<Arguments>
  <Argument>arg1</Argument>
  <Argument></Argument>
  <Argument/>
</Arguments>
can not be considered equivalent!  The first corresponds to a shell
syntax like:
some-program "arg1"
while the second is:
some-program "arg1" "" ""
Karl,

do you have examples for me? I never saw programs that take empty 
command line arguments, so I did not consider this being a use case at 
all.

Cheers,
Michel