From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 5 9:31:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fb01.eng00.mindspring.net (fb01.eng00.mindspring.net [207.69.229.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E9037B54F for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:31:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by fb01.eng00.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA32009 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 12:31:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhix.mindspring.com (user-33qtklq.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.210.186]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03068 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 12:31:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (jhix@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhix.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA00712 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:35:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: empty lists in for In-Reply-To: <57223.952177003@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> References: <57223.952177003@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on XEmacs 21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20000305093539F.jhix@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 09:35:39 -0800 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 990905(IM130) Lines: 18 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > bash and ksh complain about unexpected ';'. > > /bin/sh (FreeBSD) thinks it's ok and does nothing. > > Which behaviour is more POSIXly correct? > > Neither bash nor ksh claim to be particularly POSIX compliant. our > /bin/sh does. I seem to remember POSIX being ambiguous on this one, but > my books are at the office. If you haven't gotten a more conclusive > answer by Monday, mail me and I'll look it up. I much prefer the current behavior and believe there may be many things which depend on it. Cheers, Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message