Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
> > And for that it would be tremendous if $'' would be defined so
> > that it can be used as the sole quoting mechanism, and that would
> > then also include expansion of $VAR (i use \$VAR or \${VAR} in my
> > mailer). But to know exactly how problematic splitting of quotes
> > is for many languages of the world, including right-to-left
> > direction and shift state changes etc., and changing of meaning as
> > such if the sentence cannot be interpreted as a unity, a real
> > expert had to be asked. Anyhow, the Unicode effort mandates
> > processing of entire strings and denotes isolated treatment as
> > a complete error.
I think eliminating old quoting mechanisms would be a mistake.
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:09:56 +0200, Joerg Schilling
<joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Even if it would become part of the standad today, you stilll would need
> to wait some years until all implementations take it up.
That's true for almost all standards changes.
However, many shells *already* implement $'...'.
It's also relatively trivial to implement, and it provides
very useful capabilities (such as the ability to easily assign terminating
newlines).
I'd still like to see the addition of $'...'.
--- David A. Wheeler
