On Fri, Mar 7, 2025, at 12:23 PM, John Wiersba via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote: > You're discouraging it's use by not documenting it.
That is the point, I believe. > BTW, according to those links below, apparently zsh documents it This is true. https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Shell-Grammar.html#Alternate-Forms-For-Complex-Commands > (and encourages its use)? This is not true. The short complex commands are documented with cautionary language, and they are verboten in the distribution's own scripts. They're a regular source of user confusion, and the position of prominent community members ranges from "I use them interactively but not in scripts" to "not even once". (Granted, "for ((...)) sublist" is the least troublesome form.) Here's a relatively recent thread that's at least tangentially relevant (search for "while loop grammar question" and "why not promote the plague ? (brace|rc|alternative|modern) syntax"): https://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2024/ (The archive does have a thread view, but it's not very helpful here because this thread is so deeply nested.) -- vq
