IPv6 address/port format

[Perry E. Metzger]

Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> writes:
> [ and ] are metacharacters in the POSIX-specified standard Unix shell;
> as well as bash, bash2, ksh, csh, tcsh and zsh. Since this list
> comprises something like 99% of all Unix shells used, characters
> marked as reserved by *all* of them are a really bad choice.

Who the hell cares? No one is going to enter in address literals
except in extreme circumstances anyway. They're a mile long.

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