Re: RFC: major change to argument processing.

[Marius Vollmer]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> So what I'd like to propose is that we switch to processing all of
> the contents after the "\" and up to the "!#" using read, with each
> read producing one argument.  This would allow you to have as many
> Meta Switch lines as you want, and would make it possible for you to
> have arguments with whitespace in them using double quotes.  The
> rules for processing the arguments would be easy to understand since
> they're just the normal read semantics.

Sounds very good to me.  The meta-arg stuff is not really useful if
you can't form arguments with whitespace in them.  How does SCSH
behave?

> (If this is acceptable, I'm thinking of doing it immediately, so that,
>  if it works and is stable enough, we can have it and "-x" for 1.6.)

Hmm, I'd rather have this after 1.6.0.  We should not put in too many
stuff without enough time to shake out the bugs.