Re: why is eval needed?

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022, at 2:12 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
>      Excellent.  Yes, that's understandable.  Main thing is to realize 
> that 'tree' want's two arguments there, not the intuitive single argument.

A "single argument" is not intuitive at all.  You would not run

    tree '-L 2'

or

    tree -L\ 2

so it does not make any sense to think that "tree" wants a single
argument there.

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