Re: quotes invade positional parameters

[Jan Schampera]

jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

> Well anyway, it would be 'no skin off of bash's back' if it just
> reported what it was given.
>
> If it was given
> '  'a b c
> it should report
> '  'a b c
>
> and not just 'assume' we prefer
> '  a' b c
> or
> '  a' 'b' 'c'
> etc.
>
> Just as legitimate and doesn't cause calls in the middle of the night
> from the old folks home.
>
> Wait, that stage of the program doesn't know it was given that, and to
> make it know would just increase complexity. As would reporting
> \ \ a b c
> or would it... OK, never mind.

Yea, that's it. It doesn't report what's given, it reports the result of 
the processing. This is hopefully similar, but definitely not the same.

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