set -- ""; echo ${1:-wwww} works.
- when expanding arithmetic, discard previous ifs recorded regions, since we
are doing our own scanning. x=ab; echo $((${#x}+1)) now works.
- in ${var#word} fix two bugs:
* if there was an exact match, there was an off-by-one bug in the
comparison of the words. x=abcd; echo ${x#abcd}
* if there was no match, the stack region was not adjusted and the rest
of the word was getting written in the wrong place. x=123; echo ${x#abc}X
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