Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> writes: > Pierre Gaston wrote: >> I have a couple of suggestions about coprocesses. >> If I understood correctly how coproc works, I think that >> instead of : >> coproc [NAME] command [redirections] >> >> the documentation would be a little clearer with something like: >> >> coproc simple-command [redirections] >> coproc NAME compound-command [redirections] > > I agree. I will make it clearer that NAME cannot be used if the > coproc command is a simple command, to avoid confusion with the > first word of the command.
Even then the grammar is ambiguous. What looks like a NAME followed by a compound-command can also be interpreted as a simple-command where NAME is the first word of it. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, sch...@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
