Ok, sorry... :-)

However what about disallowing '-'  as variable's name starting character?

It would be a breaking change, but probably more in theory than in practice.
However options like -Da=1 and --foo=bar could then work unquoted.

To my untrained eye, the gain seems larger than the loss.
Am I missing an obvious use case? Or maybe the changes to rc's code would
be too complex?


Giacomo

Il 15/Mag/2017 18:39, "Charles Forsyth" <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> ha
scritto:

>
> On 15 May 2017 at 17:30, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> wrote:
>
>> % echo "$--fu"
>> rc: null list in concatenation
>>
>
> wrong quotes. try echo $'--fu'
>
> h% --x=hello
> h% echo $'--x'
> hello
>
>