From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>,
Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>,
dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] dash doesn't report syntax error when it should on stray "fi"
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:48:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F95B1F8.8080502@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120423194453.GA13576@burratino>
On 4/23/12 3:44 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>
>> What are `conforming scripts'? Scripts without syntax errors?
>
> I meant "conforming POSIX applications".
>
> A patch for this might even be welcome if it makes dash bigger, if
> that's what you're wondering.
The way I read 2.10.2, Posix requires that the "fi" resolve to the
reserved word `fi' in this case, since it's in a position where a
command name is expected (Rule 1, [Command Name]). I would think that
would make it a syntax error in any application, conforming or not.
Chet
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-23 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-23 16:53 [BUG] dash doesn't report syntax error when it should on stray "fi" Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-23 17:03 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-23 17:09 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-23 19:27 ` Chet Ramey
2012-04-23 19:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-23 19:48 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2012-04-23 19:54 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-24 22:47 ` Jilles Tjoelker
2012-04-23 19:53 ` Stefano Lattarini
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