On 4/19/16 7:52 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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.
This is wrong. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/