Re: pkg/51142: pdksh has occasional issues with empty 'for' loops

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 05:05:00PM +0000, richard%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> >Synopsis:       pdksh has occasional issues with empty 'for' loops

That's not a shell bug, but a "feature" of the standard. A common
pattern found e.g. in mk/ is to explicit append '' (empty string) and
short cut with [ -n "$i" ] || break

Joerg