Function syntax

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>]

I don't think changing this to match POSIX would break anything, as at the
moment redirections following a functon definition are pretty much useless.

--- Forwarded mail from David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>

Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 14:01:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>
To: shell@research.att.com

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> On Aug 3, 10:56am, David Korn wrote:
> }
> } With function definition redirections are processed before the {...}
> } block is entered.
> } 
> } 	foo()
> } 	{
> } 		print hello world
> } 	} > $1
> } 
> } will cause
> } 	foo bar
> } to write 'hello world' into bar.
> 
> Ahh, I didn't know that.  In zsh redirections outside the braces are
> not considered to be part of the function body.
In section 3.9.5 of the Posix shell standard,
it defines the syntax as
	fname() compound-command [io-redirect]
and it says that the option io_redirect shall be performed during the
execution of the function itself.
> 
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