Feature request: add option to force $VAR to ${VAR} about beautysh HOT 2 OPEN

Why? Keep consistency with your code, not with barbed-wire-decorations. Unless you use positional arguments above 9 often, it would be far more consistent and readable to keep $var and ${var:-default} separate.

A quick glance will at the second character tell me if someone is just using the variable, or that they're doing something special with it.

And it's far too common for people to use ${var} as a magical shield, because "that's what they used!". I've had to explain why ${var} is the same as $var more often than I've had to explain why a parameter expansion has to be quoted.

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Because it is the design choice made in the team I'm in, as simple as that. We use beautysh otherwise for styling, and it not handeling this in any way makes it lack something as a formatter.

While I can accept what you say as a rather bash savvy individual, I have a hard time speaking for the entire body of developers, so just gonna leave it there. Nothing wrong with your arguments.

I guess the alternative here would be to strip the decorations where they serve no purpose. That would be rather easy to sell. :)

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