Re: echo "enhancement" leads to confused legacy script tools...

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 01:28:37PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> [...]  I don't think that \x introducing hex constants
> is as big a problem (it may not be a problem at all). 

well, that makes `\x' yet another sequence which can surprise the user:
it changes to something else, _if_ it is followed by a digit.

And if you require the leading zero for octal escape sequences, it looks
as an inconsistency if "\0x" is not required for hexadecimal ones.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan