> Justin <justin@postgresql.org> writes:
> > If there's really something fundamentally wrong with this idea, then
> > let's only do the necessary ones.
>
> No, nothing fundamentally wrong. I just prefer to avoid unnecessary
> notational clutter. Your approach of "let's quote *every* shell
> variable" is defensible but I find it a tad over-the-top. Comes down
> to a judgment call about code legibility, I suppose.
I prefer the quoting all style, though $? is a special case, as is $#,
and $$, which I certainly would not quote. Up to you guys. Also, I
like that fact we are cleaning this up. From my days writing shql, I
always thought quoting behavour should have been the default for
environment variables.
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