Re: How does {x..y} supposed to work?

[Mike Jonkmans]

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 03:14:33PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 5/13/21 12:02 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> > According to the manpage, x and y can be single characters. "the
> > expression expands to each character lexicographically between x and
> > y, inclusive".
> 
> Hmmmmm. So which would be better: "alphabetic character" or "letter"?

letter is better:
- it is shorter
- it rhymes 

Btw is this a posix restriction? It seems to be an unnecessary limitation.

Regards, Mike Jonkmans