Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote, on 27 Apr 2018: > > Geoff Clare <g...@opengroup.org> wrote: > > > In summary: the need for a way to store a pattern in a variable such > > that a pattern-magic character can be treated literally is a reason to > > keep the first paragraph of 2.13.1 as-is and say that shells which > > behave differently than bash here do not conform. > > I am not convinced since _all_ other shells behave the same and since > changing > this in the shell would result in other missbehavior as well. > > Your wish would e.g. result in a missbehaving "case".
The comments in bug 1190 that I referred to (in the part you snipped) are about "case"! -- Geoff Clare <g.cl...@opengroup.org> The Open Group, Apex Plaza, Forbury Road, Reading, RG1 1AX, England
