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Date:	Fri, 16 Apr 1993 18:43:45 -0400
From:	byron@netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis)
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To:	quanstro@epsilon.eecs.nwu.edu, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re:  bug in rc?

"if" in the first position denotes the if keyword. In any other
position it is passed on as an argument.

this is true in sh as well:

$ echo fi
fi
$ fi echo
syntax error: `fi' unexpected
$ 

although the rules for sh parsing are probably harder to deduce..