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From: Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@gmail.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Why does {..} expansion using 'bindkey' quoting, but {,} and BRACE_CCL don't quote at all?
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 09:17:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHLkEDvmQAN1w5An46hP0_b9dv13om6_Yms3uPmnDOT_CN0uvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7YmBRdW51WA=wY34kz_Si1ScnSOKzvaFPJO-eDGQ4G1kg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 6:52 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 12:05 AM Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is there a reason for this inconsistency? Why not always produce
> > quoted or unquoted output?
> >
> > Also, why bindkey-style quoting? Wouldn't ${(q+)}-style quoting be
> > more convenient, since it's more straightforward to "unquote"?
>
> The answer to "why doesn't feature A take advantage of feature B" is
> often "because A was developed long before B".
>
> I believe that's the case in both instances here.  BRACE_CCL and {x,y}
> existed before {a..z}, and {a..z} existed before $'..'.  Old code was
> never updated to be consistent with newer code, either from simply
> being overlooked, or for backwards compatibility.

I just wish {a..z} didn't use quoting at all. :)

I understand, though, that it's hard to change at this point, because
of backwards compatibility.

How would you feel about adding a shell option to make {a..z}
unquoted? (Or failing that, an option to make all of them
$'..'-quoted.)


  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-05  6:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-04  7:04 Marlon Richert
2021-08-04 15:52 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-05  6:17   ` Marlon Richert [this message]
2021-08-05 23:36     ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-06  0:55       ` Mikael Magnusson
2021-08-06  3:08         ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-07 19:35         ` Marlon Richert
2021-08-08  0:09           ` Mikael Magnusson
2021-08-10 19:21             ` Marlon Richert

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