On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 03:46:18AM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:37:06 -0400
> schrieb Dave Reisner <d...@falconindy.com>:
> 
> > s/Better/Worse/
> > 
> > Inconsistant quoting is better than not quoting at all. If someone's
> > $srcdir expand with a space in it, the build breaks.
> 
> He should try it, because double quoting can bring some problems.
> ${variable} is almost the same as "$variable".
> 
> Heiko

Absolutely not. ${var} is identical to $var in every way except one:

 $varfoo != ${var}foo

The curly braces otherwise provide zero differentiation in expansion
rules when used in this fashion.

dave

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