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Diffstat (limited to 'generic/tclUtil.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | generic/tclUtil.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/generic/tclUtil.c b/generic/tclUtil.c index ea2c7a9..812bcad 100644 --- a/generic/tclUtil.c +++ b/generic/tclUtil.c @@ -1044,6 +1044,23 @@ TclScanElement( return 2; } +#if COMPAT + /* + * We have an established history in TclConvertElement() when quoting + * because of a leading hash character to force what would be the + * CONVERT_MASK mode into the CONVERT_BRACE mode. That is, we format + * the element #{a"b} like this: + * {#{a"b}} + * and not like this: + * \#{a\"b} + * This is inconsistent with [list x{a"b}], but we will not change that now. + * Set that preference here so that we compute a tight size requirement. + */ + if ((*src == '#') && !(*flagPtr & TCL_DONT_QUOTE_HASH)) { + preferBrace = 1; + } +#endif + if ((*p == '{') || (*p == '"')) { /* * Must escape or protect so leading character of value is not |