On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 07:45:27AM -0700, David Maas wrote: > Running the echo and other contents of the function really doesn't seem > like the correct behavior. If the function isn't called, then its contents > shouldn't be executed.
I believe the theory is the syntax error is confusing the parser to the point where it can't even tell that it's supposed to be in a function definition. So it starts reading and executing lines of code.