On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Peter Bex <[email protected]> wrote: > Why? What does it buy us? The only reason 'qs' is available is to > safely escape arbitrary strings for the shell.
Suppose you want to implement some kind of command-line completion. In this case backslash-escaping is a better fit, I think. > I think the new version does a good job at this. > > Why should we provide a known-broken version? Backslash-escaping is not broken per se. Let's say it's more difficult to implement and the current implementation is not just there. Regards, Michele _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
