Hi Ralph, At 2022-03-21T10:24:06+0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Branden, > > > At 2022-03-20T10:48:56+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > > > When a double-quoted word is not space-separated from an adjacent > > > > word, it's not considered a different argument _except_ if if is > > > > the first argument. > > > > > > That description is inaccurate. It has nothing to do with whether > > > or not it is the first argument. > > > > Right. Ralph was probably thinking of `ds`. > > I did not write what Ingo quotes, nor does he attribute it to me.
No indeed; due perhaps to some confusion of my own, I was referring to the message below. At 2022-03-20T10:06:14+0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > > but the roff(7) manual in the mandoc package says this: > ... > > Leaving out the terminating double quote character at the end of > > the line is discouraged. > > I think that's idiomatic and an early thing one learns about troff's > ‘strings’ compared to programming languages in order to read others' > troff. > > CSTR 54, §7.3 Arguments, ends with ‘A trailing double quote may be > omitted’ without recommending against doing so. I believe I was thinking that one could extrapolate from `ds` request syntax, and the citation you make above, a practice of _consistently_ omitting trailing quotes from both `ds` invocations and (final) macro call arguments, and I wanted to come down on the other side of such a proposition. It's possible that I have fought too long with contrarians, and become one myself... Regards, Branden
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