On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> > What? Have I gone mad? I hope not:
>
> I think perhaps just a little. :-)
Oh, I don't count a *little* madness. That's normal... :-)
> Non-interpolating quotes would also be non-expanding (since Exim's
> expanding is a superset of variable interpolation).
True, but we already have those. Just put your string inside \N...\N
(but there's a problem in a filter file if the string contains white
space).
What I was proposing were non-ESCAPING quotes. Given a suitable syntax,
that could be implemented easily by just not recognizing backslashes
when reading such strings.
> I think many of your users would prefer you to be exceedingly cautious
> than to haphazardly break their hitherto working configurations. :-)
Quite. So I expect I'll do nothing. That's *really* easy.
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