You could define `--` as "perform no expansions for the rest of the line", then you wouldn't have to worry about globs or `{}` which is where most of my annoyan

You could define `--` as "perform no expansions for the rest of the line", then you wouldn't have to worry about globs or `{}` which is where most of my annoyances come from. BTW `--` isn't treated specially in version 4 of Bash.