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On 24.09.2013 14:27, Ed Avis wrote:
>
> AFAIK, glob splitting on whitespace was an accident of its original
> implementation (which worked by running an external tcsh) and was preserved
> for compatibility when glob became implemented by Perl code.
>
> Personally I'm not a fan of this behaviour - it tends to cause bugs when
> file or directory names contain spaces, as is nowadays common on Windows and
> Mac systems. The fact that split-at-space has never happened on VMS might be
> another argument towards deprecating it.
Yes, please! You can easily get the old behavior of glob "foo bar" with
glob("foo"), glob("bar").
--
Lukas Mai <plokinom@gmail.com>
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