Robert Elz wrote in
<5996.1726697...@jacaranda.noi.kre.to>:
| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:05:06 +0200
| From: Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu>
| Message-ID: <20240918210506.9rRUe2TG@steffen%sdaoden.eu>
|
|| I am totally surprised they all swallow this code, there is no
|| separating whitespace in between the ; and the } which closes the
|| function -- isn't that invalid syntax even??
|
|';' is an operator, no white space needed to separate it from other
|characters (unless the other characters would potentially form a
|longer operator).
Woops. I did not know that, i always separate {} at the beginning
an the end, yet not ().
#?255|kent:steffen$ dash -c '{echo du;}'
dash: 1: Syntax error: "}" unexpected
#?2|kent:steffen$ dash -c '{ echo du;}'
du
#?0|kent:steffen$ bash -c '{echo du;}'
bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
bash: -c: line 1: `{echo du;}'
#?2|kent:steffen$ bash -c '{ echo du;}'
du
|kre
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--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
