Concept quoting

[glennj]

I'm using admonitions pretty liberally here, so we won't really see exactly how they get rendered until the PR is merged.

[IsaacG]

I haven't heard these calls bracket expressions before. I usually call them a character set, though that might be taken from the regex world.

[glennj]

It's a term I got from Tcl. There doesn't seem to be a consensus, even among regex terminologies:

• Ruby: character classes -- this I actively want to avoid, since bash calls [:alpha:] a "character class" within a character set.
• Python regex: a set of characters
• Python glob: I can't see it described in the glob or fnmatch modules.
• Perl: File::Glob calls it a character class

I'll change it to "character set". I did a bash mentoring session for acronym where the mentee used IFS=" ,-,_,*,?" so describing it as a set of characters might help with that.

[kotp]

Referenced from https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html

The following character class expressions shall be supported in all locales:

[:alnum:]   [:cntrl:]   [:lower:]   [:space:]
[:alpha:]   [:digit:]   [:print:]   [:upper:]
[:blank:]   [:graph:]   [:punct:]   [:xdigit:]

So perhaps "character class expression" to describe [:alpha:].

I see at least this line references them as "character_class".

[glennj]

@IsaacG @kotp bigger picture: Does it make sense to talk about Word Splitting and Filename Expansion in the context of Quoting?

[kotp]

@IsaacG @kotp bigger picture: Does it make sense to talk about Word Splitting and Filename Expansion in the context of Quoting?

I think at least filename expansion. Not sure about word splitting as much as avoiding splitting strings as separate words.

[IsaacG]

@IsaacG @kotp bigger picture: Does it make sense to talk about Word Splitting and Filename Expansion in the context of Quoting?

Seems reasonable to me! Quoting is only needed to avoid word splitting and pattern expansions so they go hand in hand.

Not sure about word splitting as much as avoiding splitting strings as separate words.

Unless I'm missing something, those two are saying the exact same thing.

[kotp]

Currently, the word splitting and filename expansion is in the blurb, so we must address these.

[glennj]

@kotp have I missed anything that is blocking your approval?

[kotp]

Approving (not sure it will count though) with comment.

[kotp]

Might mention "how to disable" here, or give a reference for further reading.