Re: empty lists in for

[John Polstra]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Doug Barton  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>       Given that Bash in both standard and POSIX mode complains about 'for i
> in ; do echo $i; done', I would say that it's not POSIX compatible. What
> could/does depend on this behavior "working?"

It works for the realistic cases that might actually be useful.  E.g.,:

    x=
    for i in $x; do
        echo $i
    done

works fine.  I don't think it matters very much that the pathological
case "for i in ; ..." doesn't work.

John


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