On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 07:29:12AM +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote:
>
> You're right that what other shells implement doesn't allow any possibility
> of unescaped backslashes in the shell. But if what they do is what's

Well the only shell that does allow it is bash and its behaviour
is inconsistent at best.

So at this point I am not going to change long-standing dash
behaviour on the unescaped backslash at the end of a pattern.

If and when other shells move on this issue then we can reexamine
this.

Cheers,
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