Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 16:10:37 +0000
From: David Holland <dholland-t...@netbsd.org>
Message-ID: <20160517161037.ga1...@netbsd.org>
| On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 04:05:57PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > In article <17323.1463479...@andromeda.noi.kre.to>,
| > Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote:
| > >The posix shell standard does not allow empty sub-shells, or command
| > >groups. That is, both
| > > ( )
| > >and
| > > { }
| > I think we should probably have "strict posix mode" for this
| For braces, yes - that is at least semantically sensible. For a
| subshell, I'd say not so much.
OK, absent further comment, the current plan is to simply ban empty
commands (truly empty, in the input form) as posix requires, except
for '{ }' which will only generate an error in posix (standards compliant)
mode (the options for which exist already.)
Any objections?
kre
