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Re: Avoid unportable nested double-quotes and backquotes.


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: Avoid unportable nested double-quotes and backquotes.
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:04:41 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-04-22)

Hi Bruno,

* Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 02:43:12AM CEST:
> >  Worse yet, not all shells understand 
> > @code{"address@hidden"@dots{}\"@dots{}`"}
> > -the same way.  There is just no portable way to use double-quoted
> > +the same way (@pxref{pdksh}).
> 
> Here I would refer to both 'ksh' and 'pdksh', because 'ksh' has a bigger
> problem than 'pdksh'.

What is ksh's bigger problem with "`...\"...\"...`"?  Your previous
emails in this thread don't seem to describe it, so far I've been
of the opinion that, were it not for pdksh, this expression would be
portable.

My patch adds an example for ksh's issue with "`..."..."...`", the pdksh
reference was to avoid repeating an example for its issue with
"`...\"...\"...`" here.

Thanks,
Ralf



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