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l0b0 on Oct 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Four features that justify a new Unix shell

For sure we need both human- and machine-readable stream formats, but I don't really see how QSN has any advantage in that space over `printf '%q\n'` and NUL-terminated strings, respectively.

chubot on Oct 24, 2020 [–]

I actually considered that, but it doesn't work.

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Shell-Almost-Has-a-JSON...

Single quoted strings in shell can't represent arbitrary strings either.

And the %q format is actually different from the format ${x@Q} emits. QSN is a well-specified format.

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