> Are you sure that "word" here means one or more tokens, or zero or
> more tokens. If it means zero or more tokens, then 'for i in ; do '
> is perfectly legal. You're not quoting what word means.
The standard says that `word' may not be the empty string.
POSIX.2, 3.10.
> The reason that I ask this is that I can't see why
> for i in ; do
> would be any different than
> for i in $foo; do
> when foo is empty. They are the same thing from at last my world view
> of the shell.
Because parsing and expansion are different things, and expansion is
performed after a command has been completely parsed.
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