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Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 1999 04:32:05 -0500
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From:	Gert-Jan Vons <vons@ocegr.fr>
Subject: Re: tilde featuritis alert
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Byron Rakitzis wrote:

>For better or for worse, rc's grammar allows for multiple temporary
>assignments:
>
>         ; foo=1 bar=2 echo $foo $bar
>         1 2
>         ; echo $foo $bar
>
>So you have to account for that as well.
>
>With sufficient tweaking to the parser and lexer perhaps you could allow
>unquoted '='s in a parameter list, but I tried my hand at it years ago
>and I wasn't able to come up with anything remotely pleasant.

On the other hand:

         ; echo foo=1 bar=2
         syntax error

so it does detect that the assignment is not valid in this case. If it 
just could take the equals-sign as is...


         Gert-Jan
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