i most dont understand your text story
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 3:03 PM Martin D Kealey <mar...@kurahaupo.gen.nz>
wrote:
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> On Thu, 20 Jul 2023, 18:03 Grisha Levit, <grishale...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Sounds like you want all the commands in the alias to be executed as a
>> group -- so you can just write it as one:
>>
>> alias bad='{ echo fail; continue; }'
>>
>
> That right there USED to work as a function:
>
> bad() { echo fail; continue; }
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ah cont in func
But then someone suggested allowing non-local break & continue was a bug,
> and the few people who considered it couldn't think of even as simple an
> example as that right there.
>
> So it was "fixed", and now that function doesn't work. It sickens me that
> the work-around is to enable alias expansion in scripts.
>
> *Grumble*
> -Martin
>
> PS: and people think I'm crazy for wanting to write new stuff in Perl, in
> preference to Bash. Bash as a language has nothing else going for it, so if
> after 28 years I still can't consider it stable, what is the point?
>
perl is simple and big .. i like
old around y2k when i tried hack some perl together
the public media , as many else , is every thing than perfect
perl i didnt see fpr years , as many other tho big links
about 28 years , u can see it as 1) specification
or 2) version
i just wanna say .. it still takes a while
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