Re: [bash-bug] Fix testsuite errors due to shell quoted parameter expansion issue.

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:55:36PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> And meanwhile, I found a ksh93 parsing bug (don't know where to report
> that):
> 
> $ ksh -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
> ksh: syntax error at line 1: `}' unexpected
> $ ksh -c 'a() { echo hi; }; a'
> hi
> $ bash -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
> hi
> $ /bin/sh -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
> hi
> 
> ksh is the only shell that requires a space between the ) and {, even
> though the ) is a metacharacter and should not need trailing space (even
> Solaris /bin/sh got that right).

Just talk with Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink@redhat.com>
for this as he uses the ksh/ast developers mailing list.

     Werner

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