On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:45 PM, 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.
Choose: Should the shell stop execution or not? Can you give a theor
On 4/19/16 11:03 AM, Piotr Grzybowski wrote:
> > - if it expands to a legal identifier create the coproc
>
> This isn't necessary; there's no reason to restrict a coproc name to
> something stricter than the set of valid executable names. I suppose
> I could see restricting it to
So if you really want my opinion, the shell should be aware that it's in a
function. You could possibly implement this by keeping track of the parent
pid. Another solution would be to not check the syntax of the function
until the function is actually run. I wouldn't do strict posix soley
because t
Incidentally, is it possible that somehow )) is simply interpreted the same
as } in this situation? It would also explain the perceived behavior.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:55 AM, konsolebox wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:45 PM, David Maas wrote:
> > Running the echo and other contents of
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 08:30:48AM -0700, David Maas wrote:
> So if you really want my opinion, the shell should be aware that it's in a
> function.
Agreed, unless it's really hard to do.
> You could possibly implement this by keeping track of the parent
> pid.
Nonsense. Function calls do not c
Fair enough.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 08:30:48AM -0700, David Maas wrote:
> > So if you really want my opinion, the shell should be aware that it's in
> a
> > function.
>
> Agreed, unless it's really hard to do.
>
> > You could possibly impl
On 4/20/16 8:33 AM, David Maas wrote:
> Incidentally, is it possible that somehow )) is simply interpreted the same
> as } in this situation? It would also explain the perceived behavior.
No. The parser resynchronizes at newline when performing error recovery.
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