Behavior of the for-else construct

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 3 20:45:12 EST 2022


On 4/03/22 1:55 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
> It's much better to treat arguments as a vector of strings
> rather than a single string, as the start command tries to.

It would be nice if you could, but as I understand it, Windows always
passes arguments to a program as a single string, and then it's up to
the program to split it up how it wants. Different programs do that in
different ways, hence the inconsistencies in how quoting and whitespace
is handled.

-- 
Greg


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