Re: RFC: major change to argument processing.

[Lars J. Aas]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:56:52AM +0200, Dirk Herrmann wrote:
: On 1 Jun 2001, Marius Vollmer wrote:
: > Single quotes in sh do not do any `\' processing between them.
: 
: Well, I am still not sure it is worth the additional effort to emulate
: shell behaviour... :-|

It's a more widespread concept than just shells - e.g. perl does it the
same way.  People will burn themselves on this, expecting single quotes
to leave backslashes alone.

  Lars J