> I was confused when this was first announced in the last few 
> days, but didn't have time to comment then.
> 
> If the reader isn't particularly familiar with the <exec> 
> task, then the <arg> type may be unfamiliar as well.  My 
> initial reading was that this was talking about arguments to 
> built-in functions, and the example was simply poor.
> It also assumes that the reader was aware that automatic 
> quoting was taking place, a point that's not mentioned in the 
> <arg> documentation.

You'll hvae to excuse the about-face, but I just read the <arg>
documentation.


value    string    A single command-line argument; can contain space
characters.


There's no such operating system (that I know of) that allows
command-line arguments to contain space characters unless the argument
is quoted.


To reflect the change to the Argument backing type, this parameter
should be changed: (to something like?)
value    string    A single command-line argument.  If this argument
contains spaces then it will need to be quoted.

Alternatively, a boolean attribute 'quote' or 'quoted' (defaulting to
false) could be added to the element.

-T

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