On 06/25/2018 08:11 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > The answer is ultimately the same as it was last month: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2018-05/msg00056.html
Oh wow, you replied..! I never got this in my inbox somehow... I guess it is syntactic sugar (although Greg's post shows it isn't entirely straightforward to implement in bash). But it's a useful addition and making sense given existing syntax. So now just hoping for someone to do a sample implementation!! Thanks, Peter