Re: why does this define bla() instead of respect the newline as command separator

[Oğuz]

19 Mart 2021 Cuma tarihinde Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> yazdı:

>     Date:        Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:59:18 +0300
>     From:        =?UTF-8?B?T8SfdXo=?= <oguzismailuysal@gmail.com>
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>   | Not much related, but isn't this supposed to work?
>
> It is perhaps no surprise (considering their relationship with dash)
> that the FreeBSD and NetBSD shells (at least a reasonably up to date
> NetBSD sh - aliases used to be an utter mess there) work as well.
>
>
>   | ksh
>   | ksh: syntax error at line 2: `i' unexpected
>
>   | zsh
>   | zsh: parse error near `i'
>   | zsh: parse error near `i'
>   | zsh: parse error near `i'
>
> I have no idea if I'm right or not, but those I can hazard a guess at.
>
> "in" is a peculiar reserved word in sh, it is the one (the only in standard
> sh, not sure about those shells that have added reserved words) reserved
> word
> that is never valid in the command word position of a command.  This allows
> an implementation to treat it rather differently, looking for it (as "in")
> in the couple of places it can occur as a reserved word, rather than doing
> a regular reserved word lookup.
>
> If the alias implementation worked as expected this wouldn't matter, as the
> "i" would have been translated to "in" before it is seen, but it is
> possible
> that an implementation might look ahead in the input stream, before it has
> been tokenised, and hence before alias lookups, to see if the "in" is there
> where expected or not.   That would not be correct, but is possible, given
> the other aliases defined all worked, but just not that one - and the same
> one in 2 different shells (of course, another explanation would be that
> they
> had made "i" a reserved word for some other purpose).
>
> That is, it might be worth doing another test with a sequence that doesn't
> use "in" just to see if that works.
>
>
Yeah, I think you're right about that, `if' with `[[' works fine on zsh
(and bash, with a semicolon after `]]' unless devel)

% alias a='if ' b='[[ ' c='foo ' d=']] ' e='then ' f='uname ' g='; '
% alias h='fi'
% a b c d e f g h
Linux


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Oğuz