Harald van Dijk <[email protected]> wrote: > Can there be an alternative rewording that specifies the behaviour in > even more cases, where the resulting text is still both correct and > understandable, and the extra cases are verified to work the same way on > all current shells? If there is, I suspect that coming up with that > wording is the approach most likely to get the result you are after > (which I would like to see myself as well, even though I do not feel as > strongly about it as you).
I would support a rewording that is based on the fact that all known implementations stack the alias replacement to the input and re-call the lexer. This makes everything useful that results in legal shell syntax after the alias replacement. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'
