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On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 02:51:36PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
| On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, John Horne wrote:
| > > Hmm. I wonder if I should put "non-escaping quotes" on the Wish List?
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| > To do what (I know I'm going to regret asking that)? More like a FAQ
| > question/answer maybe?
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| To save you having to double up backslashes. But I'm not enthusiastic
| because it might break some configs/filters.
How about using single qoutes for string literals (no escapes, no
variable expansion) and keeping double-quotes as-is? Some other
systems (notably shell and perl) use this single vs double qoute
semantics.
-D
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