Em qui 03 abr 2014, às 08:34:20, Sze Howe Koh escreveu: > > There's a comment in qprocess.cpp that reads: > > // handle quoting. tokens can be surrounded by double quotes > > // "hello world". three consecutive double quotes represent > > // the quote character itself. > > > > I don't know whose idea it was to use three quotes successively to > > indicate a > > quote character. It doesn't work on a regular Unix shell: > > > > $ echo """hello""" > > hello > > > > Nor on Windows's prompt: > > C:\>echo """hello""" > > """hello""" > > > > That commit has been there since the Qt public history started. It's even > > > > documented as such (I had to look it up, I didn't know): > > http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qprocess.html#start-3 > > > > But I don't know why it was done like that. It's highly surprising. If it > > weren't documented, I'd be tempted to just change behaviour and go for > > standard backslashing. > > That's highly unintuitive. The fact that it's Windows-only suggests > that it was put in to work around some issue (which may not be present > in modern versions of Windows). Candidate for change in Qt 6?
I'm not even sure it's Windows-only. I'd like to know the motivation for triple-quoting. But yes, this is a candidate for behaviour change. At the latest, Qt 6. But if we could somehow justify it, we should do it even earlier. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
