Re: [PATCH] normalization tweaks for macOS

[Grisha Levit]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 10:32 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 7/25/23 4:06 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> > Re latest changes in [1], we need to preserve quoting also for any of
> > the following characters, at least if they are in a bracket
> > expression:
> > ! - . : = ^
>
> Why not just quote them all the time and not try to determine whether or
> not they're part of a bracket expression?
>

I agree, that's a better approach. There's some performance benefit to only
preserving quoting that's required but getting this right is tricky and I
suspect not worth the increase in code complexity.

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