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From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: here document within a switch fails to parse.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 12:58:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D6E0938C-8485-4779-8BB2-DC8285B8F430@larryv.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4fa2a8d0-d5e5-90e0-b331-e7a149ec9af8@eastlink.ca>

> On Jan 6, 2021, at 12:17 PM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On 2021-01-06 8:20 a.m., Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> 
>> The «;;» token must be followed by a pattern, but in your code, it is
>> followed by a command («:»)
> Ok, so at least this is understood.  Still I'd expect the here document to be simply removed before parsing.

A. Why? Here-documents are not comments, despite your best efforts to abuse them for that role.

B. Daniel already demonstrated that your issue has nothing to do with the here-document, but with the presence of the ':' command in an invalid location.

vq
Sent from my iPhone


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-06 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-06 15:13 Ray Andrews
2021-01-06 16:20 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-06 17:17   ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-06 17:58     ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2021-01-06 19:18     ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-07  7:55       ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-07 15:32         ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-07 20:16           ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-08 15:27             ` Karsten Borgwaldt
2021-01-08 15:53               ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-01-08 17:13                 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-08 18:06                   ` Peter Stephenson
2021-01-08 19:39                     ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-08 19:56                       ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-09  0:45                         ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-09 17:28                         ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-12 13:28             ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-12 14:45               ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-13 16:17                 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-13 21:57                   ` Pier Paolo Grassi
2021-01-13 23:39                     ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-13 23:54                       ` Lawrence Velázquez

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