On 06-Mar-00 Doug Barton wrote:
> I just checked POSIX 1003.2.
>
> for name [ in word ]
> do
> compound-list
> done
>
> the "in word" is optional. Therefore:
>
> for name in ; do echo $name; done
>
> is an error, whereas
>
> for name ; do echo $name; done
These are two different functions. The second one loops through the
command line parameters.
> is not, and Bash does not report it as so, in or out of POSIX mode.
> Also, your snippet clearly expects that there will be a word after "in."
> It could easily be argued from that context that the presence of "in"
> without a "word" to go with it is an error, even without the bit from
> Martin's post.
>
> All that said, if the ports make system depends on the current
> behavior, it has to be fixed before we can contemplate any changes.
Patches accepted.
> Doug
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