(Thanks to izabera for bringing this to my attention!) On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 01:07:44AM +0300, Oleg Bulatov wrote:
> > --- bash 4.3.42 output: That’s the output I’d expect, from manually reading this. > Interestingly, mksh parses this in yet another way. In unmodified form, > it fails with here document 'XXX' unclosed. Yeah, I noticed… yay another bug to fix (just had two last night)… > After appending an XXX line, it outputs: Ah okay, thanks for this hint, that should make debugging easier. bye, //mirabilos -- Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh- ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C"
