2019-06-17 15:22:25 +0100, Geoff Clare: [...] > > And all other implementations (including all the certified ones, > > including kre's) should be deemed non-compliant? > > Yes. [...]
So you would want to sacrifice backward compatibility, break common usage patterns, force all implementations to be changed to implement a feature that was probably added by accident to the standard, that is documented in none of the shells that implement (part of) it (even bash doesn't document that wildcard quoting operator), for a feature that was never needed, probably never asked for and hardly anybody is aware of and can only be used in corner cases (patterns stored in variables, used unquoted)? -- Stephane
