Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,
>         address@hidden,  address@hidden
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:57:50 -0400
> >> 
> >> I guess I could be convinced by example code where the use of the "multiple
> >> arg feature" makes the code simpler (without introducing extra bugs).
> 
> > Define ``make the code simpler'', and I will try to think if there is
> > an example of that.
> 
> The notion of what is simpler is clearly objective and we may never agree,

That is exactly why I asked for _your_ notion of ``simpler''.

> I just honestly can't think of any case where the "multiple args feature"
> can be used without either introducing bugs, or just pushing the arguably
> strange behavior (of having a list of strings which will be concatenated
> by Emacs and re-split later differently by the shell) to the user of
> that code.

Well, the function exists in this form for many years (at least 12).
I'm guessing that the &rest args form was to make it similar to
start-process or something, but that's just a guess.