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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: sh versionator.eclass
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:42:13
Message-Id: fdur9e$cu5$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: RFC: sh versionator.eclass by Steve Long
1 Steve Long wrote:
2 > IMO the real reason you have such an issue with quoting is the redundant
3 > braces which are Gentoo house style; too many newbie scripters think that
4 > cd ${S} is safe when it should be cd "${S}" or more simply cd "$S". I don't
5 > buy the legibility argument since most people use syntax highlighting. It
6 > just sets the parser up for a non-event (yes I am *that* fussy about
7 > cycles.) My suspicion is that it came from echo "${RD}message$NO"
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9 Or because the unbraced case looks like ass.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: sh versionator.eclass Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>