From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200206132058.QAA05517@math.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or a feature? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:35:57 PDT." From: Dan Cross Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:58:14 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ac5cbf8c-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > The rationale is explained in the following paragraphs, but apparantly, > > Unix rc has fixed that. Indeed, the specific example given in td's > > paper is handled in a reasonable way. > > requiring braces is just as much of a hack > as if not. Err, Unix rc doesn't require braces for td's example. requiring a newline or ; seperator certainly isn't any better, though, for the else case. - Dan C.