Michael Le Barbier Grünewald <mich...@quintly.com> writes:
> Nevertheless, when evaluating the second snippet
>
> failwith()
> {
> 1>&2 {
> printf 'Failure: '
> printf "$@"
> printf '\n'
> }
> exit 1
> }
>
> bash does not report the syntax error and resumes interpretation,
This is fully syntactical. It defines a function, then exits with 1
(ignoring the rest of the input). Braces are not special characters,
only recognized as reserved words in some contexts.
Andreas.
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