[Issue 423] New: dmd ignores empty commandline arguments

[Hasan Aljudy]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:39:01 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> d-bugmail at puremagic.com wrote:
>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=423
>>>
>>>            Summary: dmd ignores empty commandline arguments
>>>            Product: D
>>>            Version: 0.169
>>>           Platform: PC
>>>         OS/Version: Linux
>>>             Status: NEW
>>>           Severity: normal
>>>           Priority: P2
>>>          Component: DMD
>>>         AssignedTo: bugzilla at digitalmars.com
>>>         ReportedBy: thomas-dloop at kuehne.cn
>>>
>>> dmd "" a.d
>>> is interpreted as >dmd a.d<
>>>
>>> dmd ''
>>> is interpteted as >dmd<
>> That's what it's supposed to do.
> 
> Why? I would have expected a string of length zero to be passed.
> 

So? It's zero-length string is "nothing", hence ignored.