>> es did this: anything passed to a function inside curly braces was passed
>> verbatim.
>
> that was the main bit of es that i stole for the inferno shell. it works well,
> and combined with dynamically loaded shell modules, makes many nice things
> quite
> easy.
i thought that in the inferno sh the bit inside the {} was parsed, and later
converted
back to a string if passed to a command (uniform treatment of {} as in `{}, and
you
discover your syntax errors in good time). i don't remember what es did.
