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Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths) |
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Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:13:39 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:02:59 +0100
> From: Tim Murphy <address@hidden>
> Cc: Frank Heckenbach <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>
> > Then SHELL_QUOTE, whatever its name, is not what you want. What you
> > want is a way to write an extension (in C or in Guile) that would hook
> > into this expansion, and let you do whatever you need. IOW, you want
> > to ask for infrastructure that would allow extensions to do things
> > like that (I don't think we have such an infrastructure right, but
> > maybe I'm mistaken).
> >
> > Let's not (ab)use quoting for things it is not supposed to provide and
> > support.
>
> You can't control what people do with a feature that you add to make.
No, but I can tell them "if it hurts, don't do that".
> When you show them a new thing that is possible they will use it. Why
> make it a crap one-purpose feature when it can so obviously be made
> generally useful and with so little work?
There's nothing wrong with one-purpose features. Each feature should
do its intended job well, no more, no less.
You are asking for a much more broad feature. I agree that it will be
very useful, I just don't see why we need to lump it together with
quoting. It's not a natural extension of quoting in any sense.
> "Feature creep" is just a pejorative term that one can throw at any
> unexpected suggestion. Surely one can distinguish between a useful
> generalisation of a very specific concept and an unnecessary feature.
> Surely it's a good thing to generalise a capability so that it can be
> used widely?
I don't see how your suggestion is a generalization of file-name
quoting.
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), (continued)
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/04/10
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Tim Murphy, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Tim Murphy, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Tim Murphy, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Tim Murphy, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Tim Murphy, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Tim Murphy, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Tim Murphy, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/11
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/04/29
- Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Paul Smith, 2014/04/12