Re: Can zsh `else` reserved keyword command be aliased and the lexem itself be repurposed as `fi` keyword command?

[mathieu stumpf guntz <psychoslave@culture-libre.org>]

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Le 30/12/2017 à 02:07, Bart Schaefer a écrit :
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Bart Schaefer
> <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>> Mathieu wants execution to begin as soon as there is
>> some code in the buffer, without waiting for the final keyword to
>> appear.
Where odes this quote come from, it seems I missed a message. Did 
someone replied to "zsh-workers@"?

> Not-so-incidentally, the fact that zsh does NOT do this is one of the
> primary reasons that zsh exists at all.  Paul Falstad found it
> distasteful that csh DOES that, and set out to create a shell that had
> the interactive advantages of csh while preserving the separation of
> parse and execution as found in sh and ksh.
I was, of course, completely unaware of that. I would be interested with 
more technical details if you could provide me some links.

And, just for memory, forcing execution at some explicit point is not my 
goal, but just a possible mean I considered to bypass the lake of a 
"keyword" reserved-keyword-command, similar to `command` and `builtin`. 
Implenting such a thing wouldn't require de abandon the separation of 
parse and execution, would it?

Cheers