Re: [Issue 1780] Keyword values with dollar signs cause badness.

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 02:56:05PM -0000, kfogel@tigris.org wrote:
> Putting into 'future'. Definitely a bug, but it's probably pretty rare to
> encounter, and the workaround is simple ("don't do that"). Patch welcome.
>
> Some thoughts about a fix:
>
> A real escaping mechanism would "solve" this in some sense, but it would still
> affect the visible expansion of the keyword. The user would see
>
> $Author: j\$random $
>
> instead of
>
> $Author: j$random $
>
> I don't really see any reasonable way out of that, but it's a pity :-).

Why not simply do this:

$Author: "j$random" $

When we use quotes could be limited to when we're inserting a string
with $ in it to maintain compatability since this is a rare issue. In
the future depending upon where we see this fitting into our
compatability guarantees we can switch to always using $Keyword: "..." $

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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