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boundary="------------F9C1s3QRGkNW7dpc2RdS0wCV" Message-id: <363c098d-f84e-4797-a0cc-24c43630ce66@eastlink.ca> Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 15:22:01 -0700 MIME-version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: nesting issue To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <9a82e3a2-0bf1-4563-b5ae-c40d9ef659c9@app.fastmail.com> <54b8d116-36f5-4ca4-9eb5-92f0bbb75f54@eastlink.ca> <21d74774-78ab-4560-ac66-3c690731d260@app.fastmail.com> Content-language: en-US From: Ray Andrews In-reply-to: <21d74774-78ab-4560-ac66-3c690731d260@app.fastmail.com> X-Seq: 29903 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F9C1s3QRGkNW7dpc2RdS0wCV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 2024-05-05 13:45, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > Useful and sensible, but not "necessary" by any means. One of the Useful and sensible are good enough for me. > reasons the legacy `...` form is discouraged is that in some shells > it requires nested double quotes to be backslash-quoted. > > % ksh -c 'echo "`echo \"a b c\"`"' That's sadistic.  How you guys keep the parser sane is beyond my imagining. --------------F9C1s3QRGkNW7dpc2RdS0wCV Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

On 2024-05-05 13:45, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
Useful and sensible, but not "necessary" by any means.  One of the
Useful and sensible are good enough for me.  

reasons the legacy `...` form is discouraged is that in some shells
it requires nested double quotes to be backslash-quoted.

	% ksh -c 'echo "`echo \"a   b   c\"`"'
That's sadistic.  How you guys keep the parser sane is beyond my imagining.

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