bash evaluation change...

[Will Woods]

On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 22:55 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> I'd say, report this as a bug and see where it leads.  It's certainly not
> expected behaviour even if it is intentional.

One-line reproducer:

case x"" in x) echo matches x;; x?) echo matches x? but not x;; esac

I notice the bash-4.2 CHANGES file[1] mentions something like this in
the changes from alpha to beta: 

"b.  Fixed a bug that caused partially-quoted words that were not
subject to word splitting to retained quoted NULLs."

Maybe that's not as fixed as they thought?

-w

[1] http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/CHANGES