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Re: [RFA 1/3] Linespec rewrite: Parsing
On 03/26/2012 09:22 AM, Tom Tromey wrote:
I was hoping we could get away with this change. It seemed clearly sane
to me, but apparently front-end authors disagree :)
At least one other front-end author has worked around previous bugs by
quoting the entire linespec. So it looks like we'll have to maintain
bug-for-bug compatibility on this.
For Plan B I think we can treat quotes differently and preserve
compatibility. I'd rather not do this, but I think compatibility is
more important than cleanliness.
I have pushed a patch to my archer branch which permits
quote-encapsulating the linespec. I have also reverted the "invalid"
linespec tests.
Keith