minor parsing bug in zsh 3.0.8

minor parsing bug in zsh 3.0.8

[Jens Schweikhardt]

hello, world\n

zsh won't parse function definitions with a space between the parentheses:

# foo ( ) { echo foo }
zsh: parse error near `}'
# foo () { echo foo } 
# echo $ZSH_VERSION
3.0.8

The draft of the next POSIX spec makes ( and ) in function definitons
separate tokens,

	function_definition : fname '(' ')' linebreak function_body

You might want to fix this for proper POSIX conformance. Thanks!

Regards,

	Jens
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SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)

Re: minor parsing bug in zsh 3.0.8

[Bart Schaefer]

On May 7,  4:02pm, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
} 
} zsh won't parse function definitions with a space between the parentheses:
} 
} # foo ( ) { echo foo }
} zsh: parse error near `}'

It will if you `setopt SH_GLOB'.  The POSIX rules conflict with zsh's own
globbing rules.  There are a number of options one has to set before the
shell will closely emulate POSIX; the easiest way to get them all is to
use the `emulate sh' command.


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