On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Andreas Schwab wrote: > What does "take them as read" mean?
Taking something as read means that the author thought we would understand it without them actually writing it down. Or more prosaically, it means to pretend that they're written there, even though they're not, because otherwise what's actually written is nonsense. In this case, they mention that redirections applied to a compound statement take effect on all its parts, but they do NOT mention that a pipe connecting a compound statement to some other statement takes effect on its parts. But we have to assume it does, otherwise all manner of stuff is broken, even though they haven't written it. -Martin
