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Re: PATCH: 4.1: multi-parameter for loop

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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PATCH: 4.1: multi-parameter for loop
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 17:04:09 -0700
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On Jun 23, 12:49am, Zefram wrote:
> Subject: Re: PATCH: 4.1: multi-parameter for loop
> Bart Schaefer wrote:
> >               clearly a parameter named "in" can only appear in the first
> >position,
> 
> for out 'in' in a b c d; do ...

That requires even more changes to the parser ...

bash$ for 'in' in a b c d; do break; done
bash: `'in'' is not a valid identifier

zsh% for 'in' in a b c d; do break; done
zsh: parse error near `'in''

I.e. you can't use a quoted string as the NAME in `for NAME in WORD'.

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- Re: PATCH: 4.1: multi-parameter for loop
  - From: Zefram

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