Re: Can zsh `else` reserved keyword command be aliased and the lexem itself be repurposed as `fi` keyword command?

[mathieu stumpf guntz <psychoslave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ray,

Le 29/12/2017 à 21:27, Ray Andrews a écrit :
> As for me, the very idea that a reserved word could be aliased seems 
> monstrous. In any information system there must be tokens who's 
> meaning is absolute.  How you guys can begin to make it possible to 
> parse such things is beyond me, it seems like black magic.
Our monstrous black spells will turn all your beliefs in absolute 
relativity, thou mere creature of flesh. ;)
> But I am curious, what does it mean to say that an interpreted program 
> is incomplete?  I mean, unclosed quotes and such things are clearly 
> incomplete, but other than that?
Well, any peace of code which can not, through a given grammar, be 
turned into an actual set of instructions which once run will either 
terminate or run for an undetermined period. Of course this is a rather 
sparse explanation :)

Witchly,
psychoslave