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Re: [Bug] make, zsh and functions

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Bug] make, zsh and functions
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:03:56 +0000
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Adrien Pierard wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> This is a bug that is easy to reproduce:
> ------------snip---------
> % cat > Makefile
> all:
> 	@echo hello
> ^D
> % make
> hello
> % make foo().
> % make
> make:.:3: not enough arguments

This isn't a bug; see the syntax for function definitions in the zshmisc
manual.  "make foo()." defines two functions called make and foo with the
body ".".  This feature isn't often used; it seems to be there to make
it easy to define identical trap functions.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070

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- [Bug] make, zsh and functions
  - From: Adrien Pierard

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