Chris Rees <[email protected]> wrote:

> When I wrote rclint I was going from "Practical RC scripting in FreeBSD" and 
> existing scripts.  Almost without exception the name= and rcvar= lines were 
> unquoted, and that's the reason I did this.
>
> Once desc= was added then it became natural to quote it, so I suppose the 
> recommendation not to quote short variables may well have been superseded.
>
> Again, to avoid repo churn I don't want to reverse the recommendation with an 
> error but I guess I could just remove the prohibition in rclint on quoted 
> single-word values.

Thanks for the explanation, and for the reason you cite, I personally think that
your proposal is the best course of action.

By the way, nice program!

Thanks, Jamie

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