On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 8:28 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
>
> On 2/4/22 2:23 PM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
>
> > > imho the example above should have resulted in error ')'
> > > it would execute cat a b ) with hello till $( then rather \n and a b
> > )
> > > again, useless
> > > especially the $( wasnt even quoted
> >
> > What can this possibly mean? What semantic interpretation would lead you
> > to the conclusion that you should stop reading the token after a `$(' in
> > this one specific case?
> >
> >
> > by flat non lexical text parsing, excepts for quotes but then $( logically
> > expands, excepts:
> > but imho the topic here is how far to expand shell stuff at this position,
> > however factically its just needs to be a constant data separator
>
> Well, you'd certainly have something here if your shell did that. It
> wouldn't be a POSIX shell, though.
it was my mind shell
does it mean it wont ever get to be the regex /<<([^ \t\f\v\r\n;]+)
that is, after << is parsed a read word till next space, no shell expansion
logic of separated functional structures in the topic of flat data is
overruling, you are overseeing
for me <<$( e o f )
blabla
$( e o f )
is pure early bug
>
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