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