Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] local by itself
Date: Monday, 28 Sep 2020, 08:34:12
> Message Posted By: Unknown > > Why isn't the command 'a=b' valid? ... Because a=b is a TEXT token of the form NAME=VALUE and thus is treated as a [local], and as a result there are no arguments, which parsley flags as an error (unlike bash). ===== > ... Why doesn't this statement from the > spec: "To resolve the ambiguity we will assume that a TEXT token of the > form NAME=VALUE is always treated as a [local] if it can be." mean that > the local should be treated as TEXT? A [local] is a TEXT token, but one of a special form. --Stan-PREV INDEX NEXT