Re: [Exim] [patch] A few minor fixes/improvements.

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Author: Nico Erfurth
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To: Alexander V Alekseev
CC: Kirill Miazine, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] [patch] A few minor fixes/improvements.
Alexander V Alekseev wrote:
>         Hello!

>
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Kirill Miazine wrote:
>
>
>>>    You pointed out, that everyone escapes {}. That's right. Why do
>>>you think then, such undocumented bug should be supported? For someone,
>>>who don't read the documentation?

>>
>>Because escaping { inside {} is logical NATURAL! It's just like you
>>would escape a double quote inside a double quoted string.
>>
>>If they don't RTFM they know nothing about string expansion anyway.
>
>     I mean, that possibility of unescaped unbalanced {} inside {}
> (which is now possible) is really a bug. It's completely undocumented.
>     You mean, that no one should do that. I agree, and my patch
> just fixes it.
>     "Nico Erfurth <masta@???>" says, that unescaped unbalanced
> {} inside {} are quite possible. I disagree. That's all.


I never said that, or you missunderstood me, i said it possible to use a
} inside, if you escape it like this \}, and you can use a { without
escaping it, you can even use any combination of { and } if you escape
everything with \N, i NEVER said that it's possible to use a } like you
want.

ciao