On Monday, 25 February 2013 at 15:07:47 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
I suggest that either the overloads which take a single string
be removed, or that they spawn a shell instead, and let the
shell do the command-line splitting. Together with my command
and filename escaping functions, they should allow the user to
achieve any combination of executing commands with arbitrary
punctuation in the program path or arguments, as well as
redirecting the output to files (again, with correctly-escaped
filenames) or other programs using the existing shell syntax
present on both platforms.
I concur that they should be removed. If the user wants the
behaviour of split(), the user can use split() explicitly and the
serious implications of that will be out in the open rather than
buried in standard library source code and documentation.
