Re: feature to remove: free carets

[peter@robots.oxford.ac.uk]

> John bubbles:
> 
> > I'd very much like to see free carets dropped from es.  The
> > fewer lexical kludges, the better.
> 
> Yup.  I find my sh "how should this be quoted?" worries are replaced with
> "does this need a ^?" in rc and es.  Much less often, but it's there.
> Of course it doesn't really matter to me whether free carets are removed
> or not, because I tend to throw explicit ones in at the slightest doubt.
>
> J
>

I put in carets when in doubt too, but as Paul said people often use free
carets without realizing it (too much [c]sh programming perhaps), so in order
to retain some sanity, it might be an idea to retain free carets.

Pete.