On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13/02/2010 08:57 μμ, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> >> Never use `...`, always $(...), always use the braces for variable names >> and always quote paths that contain variables. > > I do not agree with your view that braces should always be used around > variable names. While I would like to read any justification about that, my > opinion is that they should only be used when necessary.
It's a safety net. It will ALWAYS work if you use braces. Not everyone knows what character ends a variable name and what doesn't.
