Op 04-04-17 om 02:26 schreef Thorsten Glaser: > That’s no excuse… pdksh does simple search for a matching ) > in command substitutions, failing $(case x in y) ;; esac ).
Yeah, I've run into that. It even parses quote marks in comments within command substitutions, requiring them to be balanced (so an "it's" in a comment would cause a syntax error pinpointed twelve zillion lines further on). bash 2 did the same thing. So did ksh88, I'm pretty sure... > I think “we” agreed somewhere (maybe here, maybe in IRC, maybe > on the Austin ML) that doing weird things to the shell syntax > with aliases need not really be supported. So, please, do tell > me whether you *really* have a *legit* use case for… that. Define "legit" and "weird" (and explain how they're mutually exclusive). ;-) What I'm doing is this: https://github.com/modernish/modernish#use-varsetlocal So no, this does not really need to be supported in command substitutions or any other subshells. But I do report every little oddity I find, sometimes they're indicative of bugs. - M.
