From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: auto-quoting inside braces in arguments
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:10:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210219161010.GB7102@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7aQ3uWnb=zkd1uiU3km-tzTanMa3M8PA5Y65wO8VGwj8Q@mail.gmail.com>
Bart Schaefer wrote on Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 14:44:29 -0800:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 2:13 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> >
> > Hang on. Why would it matter which style of quotes would have been
> > used?
>
> In your example, what if $foo and $baz have an opening and closing
> quote in their values?
As I wrote in the part you'd snipped:
> > > normally $foo would be constructed to end on inter-token whitespace,
It's of course possible to write code where the number of q's in bar matters
(for instance, «eval ${:-\$}${(q…):-lorem}»), but that falls under "don't do
that".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-19 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-18 13:40 Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-18 17:35 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-02-18 18:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-18 18:52 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-19 12:24 ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-18 18:57 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-18 19:07 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-18 21:49 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-18 22:12 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-02-18 22:44 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-19 16:10 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2021-02-19 16:50 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-02-19 21:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-19 12:17 ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-19 12:29 ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-19 22:15 ` Bart Schaefer
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