On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> 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.
Well, yes, this was the suggestion. My worry is that it might break
existing configurations. I know this isn't too likely, but it's
certainly possible. Consider
if $h_subject: matches 'foo' then ...
At present, that will look for the literal string "'foo'", including the
single quotes.
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