nushell / nushell/nushell

Unbalanced trailing parentheses handled incorrectly in string interpolation

Open
#12,127 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

A:parser status:needs-triage
Dominant language
Rust
Stars
40.5k
Forks
2.3k
Avg merge
1d 19h
Merged PRs (30d)
85

Description

Describe the bug or feature

According to the docs string interpolation should require parentheses to be escaped in order to be treated as a string, however unbalanced trailing closing parentheses are treated as strings

Screenshot 2024-03-07 at 14 57 10

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by comparing Nushell's documented string-interpolation rules with a minimal reproduction of unbalanced trailing closing parentheses. Trace the interpolation parsing path to identify where those parentheses are classified, then verify that the behavior matches the documented escaping requirement.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.