C-Shell weirdness (How to get 0 words)

[Roger Hale]

In article <196 at cfa.UUCP>, wyatt at cfa.UUCP (Bill Wyatt) writes:
> > ... If you do
> > 
> > set hosed
> > echo $#hosed
> > 
> > THEN you will get 0.
> 
> Small problem: on my system (Ultrix 32m 1.1) the above gives 1, not 0.

set foo=()
echo $#foo

gives me 0.  (4.2bsd vax.)  I suspect it will elsewhere too.

Roger Hale	Internet:  roger at ll-xn.arpa