Sven Mascheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The manpage still documents support for the historic almquist for-loop
> syntax, "do and done may be replaced with { and }". But it's not
> implemented anymore.
Thanks for noting this error in the manual, I'll correct it.
> I'm curious: when has it been removed?
> (I can't see it in the changelogs, and it seems to have gone between
> ash-0.3.8 and some earlier dash-0.4.x)
It was removed in 0.3.8-1.
> Why am I asking? I was just curious and I stumbled over this because
> AFAIK dash is the only ash variant (well, except busybox) which has it
> removed; I guess simply due to POSIX, and because it had been everything
> but common usage anyway.
Yes this non-POSIX syntax offered no advantages at all and as such
was removed.
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