[Fish-users] fish comments syntax vs bash

[Azeem A. <mai...@gm...>]

I noticed this in the way comment lines are treated in fish

fish
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z33m@z33m-asus ~> echo hello#world
hello
z33m@z33m-asus ~> echo hello #world
hello

bash
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[z33m@z33m-asus ~]$ echo hello#world
hello#world
[z33m@z33m-asus ~]$ echo hello #world
hello

I am guessing that bash requires a new token starting with #  to begin a
comment line, while fish also treats # in between tokens as comment line
start.

I came across this when i was using bower commandline tool. which accepts
arguments of the form <packagename>#<version>. This command works in bash
but fails in fish, i have to quote the argument to get this working.

Is this behavior a bug, or is this intentional?

Thanks