* Function syntax
@ 2001-08-03 18:14 Bart Schaefer
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From: Bart Schaefer @ 2001-08-03 18:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
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
--------
> 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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