On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 04:40:41 PM Philippe Wang wrote: > Repeat-By: > # 1) should raise a parsing error (but it doesn't) > while break ; true ; do true ; done
This doesn't cause a parsing error in any shell I have to test with. I don't see why it would. > # 2) should break the outer loop (but it doesn't) > while true ; do while break ; do whatever-because-never-reached ; done ; > echo fail ; done I don't think so. It should break the inner loop. "break 2" would break the outer loop. the "list" preceeding the "do" keyword is considered part of the loop. The same applies to "continue". -- Dan Douglas
