Re: Document that here strings don't support brace expansion.

[alex xmb ratchev]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 7:04 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 3/14/23 11:23 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> > Alex Bochannek <alex@bochannek.com> writes:
> >> "The WORD undergoes tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion,
> >> command substitution, arithmetic expansion, and quote removal.  Filename
> >> expansion and word splitting are not performed."
> >>
> >> It is missing brace expansion, which is not supported:
> >
> > Interesting ... I would recommend adding brace expansion to the list of
> > things-not-done because I think it's a common cognitive error to include
> > brace expansion as part of filename expansion -- it's one of those
> > things you do on the command line to generate a list of the files you
> > want.
>
> OK, let's assume that's true: that brace expansion and filename expansion
> are linked in your mind. Some glob(3) implementations do include it as a
> non-standard extension, in fact.
>
> If they're linked, why wouldn't saying filename generation isn't performed
> be enough to imply that brace expansion isn't performed either?
>

fn exp is fs funcs
brace exp is pure text .. bracing .. no fs

I mean, it's not a huge deal -- two words. What I want to avoid is the
> expectation that not only does the documentation need to specify which
> expansions are performed, but the ones that are not. How about assuming
> that if it's not specified as being performed, it's not performed?
>
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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