On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:44:42PM -0400, Philip Ganchev wrote:
> Is there any way to shorten "begin" and "end" instead?

i thought about that too.
one thing i came up with, which i don't really like though,
is that () also contains a new scope and hence this works:

true (set -lx DISPLAY :93.0; xlogo)

so i wondered, why not allow () in place of a command?
the reason i don't like it is, it breaks symmetry in the syntax, since
every other block constructing element is a command, this would now be
the exception.

it would also make fish look more like lisp which i am not sure is a
good idea. (even though i like lisp because of its rather minimalist
syntax)

greetings, martin.
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