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command substitution gets confused by case parens

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From: Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: command substitution gets confused by case parens
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 01:48:22 -0400
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According to POSIX, I think, the following should work.

print $(case $TEST in
 abc)
 echo a   
 ;;            
 def)
 echo b   
 ;;   
esac)
zsh: parse error near `;;'

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