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:::::<lang bash>$ FOO='5'; FOO=''; echo $FOO
$ FOO='5'; FOO=; echo $FOO</lang> --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 01:40, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
::::::Heh the SNOBOL example is fair enough. As for shells, the multitude of quoting rules, whitespaces and such are so all over the place that I'd rather we not discuss it (but if you want to feed a program an empty argument instead of no argument, you do say <code>foo ""</code>, not <code>foo</code> &mdash; but hey, I'm not discussing it.) :) --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 02:42, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
 
::The possible minor rewording of the task description will not affect the task itself. Is there any reason that we can not promote this to task? [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 16:42, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
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