2 Oct
2008
2 Oct
'08
8:50 a.m.
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 09:12 +1300, chris packham wrote:
One option would be to use the kind quotes ' vs " to determine whether to escape or not. I believe bash (and maybe perl) does this kind of thing when handling strings.
Yeah, the problem is with compatibility, ' and " style quoting has been working this way for about a decade, changing that would break a lot of configurations. I should have made this decision back then, but changing this now is not really possible I think.
-- Bazsi