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From: bfox@sbphy.ai.mit.edu (Brian Fox)
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Subject: for without in
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Date: 14 Dec 89 09:08:03 GMT
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   Date: 14 Dec 89 05:10:31 GMT
   From: ogicse!reed!trost@caesar.cs.montana.edu  (Bill Trost)
   Sender: bug-bash-request@prep.ai.mit.edu

   I've noticed that something like 

	   spam() { for i; do echo $i; done }

   expands into

	   spam () { for i in $*
	   do
	   echo $i
	   done }

   (direct shell output).  Personally, I would expect "$@" instead of $*
   in the for statement.  What is the "official statement" on this?

You are right.  The shell should expand the null argument to "$@".

Brian