Paul Eggert wrote: > On 09/01/2010 07:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > >> Personally, I'd _like_ to try to get POSIX to allow unspecified behavior >> for a bracket expression that starts and ends with colon, > > Likewise. Thanks for starting the Aardvark at > <http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=305>. > > I was amused to see that, under its argument, > grep is already within its rights to reject [:space:] > even when conforming to POSIX.
Amusing, indeed. Then we wouldn't even need to bother with POSIXLY_CORRECT.
