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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: parsing empty alternatives: case foo|) :;;
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:26:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170807152649.6a5e7d70@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170807135559.odtceysgqn5qeqql@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2>

On Mon, 7 Aug 2017 13:55:59 +0000
Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> % case '' in (foo|) echo yes;; esac
> yes
> % case '' in foo|) echo yes;; esac
> zsh: parse error near `)'
> 
> Why does the second case fail to parse?  We (IRC) don't see any ambiguity
> in it.

I haven't checked, but I think it looks like a pipe --- at that point we
haven't gone further down the case-specific code so that it parses the
line specially.

pws


  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-07 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20170807135641epcas3p4bc0a64f832ae7fcd76051ac198722045@epcas3p4.samsung.com>
2017-08-07 13:55 ` Daniel Shahaf
2017-08-07 14:26   ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2017-08-07 14:44     ` Bart Schaefer
2017-08-07 14:58       ` Peter Stephenson
2017-08-07 18:03         ` 5.4 almost released Peter Stephenson
2017-08-07 18:25           ` Eric Cook
2017-08-07 18:34             ` Peter Stephenson
2017-08-08 10:26               ` Martijn Dekker
2017-08-08 11:00                 ` Peter Stephenson
2017-08-07 18:21         ` parsing empty alternatives: case foo|) :;; Peter Stephenson
2017-08-07 18:56           ` Peter Stephenson

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