Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 16:05:57 +0000 (UTC)
From: chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas)
Message-ID: <nhffh5$m9s$1...@ger.gmane.org>
| I think we should probably have "strict posix mode" for this (via an
| environment variable or command line switch?) ...
That we have already. (Both variants, and set -o)
| Allowing relaxed syntax like this is convenient.
Three choices (or maybe 4) - all of it (all places where the old shell
permitted empty commands like "sh -c '&&'" ? There seems to have been
no fallout at all from changing that one.
All the grouping commands '( )' '{ }' and 'fn() { }' ?
As David Holland suggested, just the '{ }' (and in that case, automatically)
'fn() { }'
Or just for function definitions? Or perhaps some other combination,
though I suspect those are the most likely ones.
Any are possible, either all the time, or allowing them only in non-posix mode.
Which do you (and everyone else) prefer ?
kre
