Re: Interesting bug

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/12/22 5:20 PM, David Hobach wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the detailed explanations, much appreciated!
>
> So essentially it's no bug - just a rather uncommon choice of keywords.
>
> I still don't agree with that choice since it can be abused to somewhat 
> hide code in pull requests to less experienced maintainers, but oh well... 
> there's probably enough fun to be had with unicode et al already. And I 
> guess the more modern tastes are relatively recent in the history of bash.

You may not agree with the choice of `{' and `}' as reserved words instead
of operators, but that choice is at least 45 years old from the time Bourne
made it. He probably had his own backwards compatibility concerns: scripts
that used `{' and `}' as `normal' unquoted arguments that would have been
broken by making them operators.

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