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Re: here document within a switch fails to parse.

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From: Lawrence Velázquez <vq@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: here document within a switch fails to parse.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 12:58:35 -0500
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> On Jan 6, 2021, at 12:17 PM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 2021-01-06 8:20 a.m., Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> 
>> The «;;» token must be followed by a pattern, but in your code, it is
>> followed by a command («:»)
> Ok, so at least this is understood.  Still I'd expect the here document to be simply removed before parsing.

A. Why? Here-documents are not comments, despite your best efforts to abuse them for that role.

B. Daniel already demonstrated that your issue has nothing to do with the here-document, but with the presence of the ':' command in an invalid location.

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References:
- here document within a switch fails to parse.
  - From: Ray Andrews
- Re: here document within a switch fails to parse.
  - From: Daniel Shahaf
- Re: here document within a switch fails to parse.
  - From: Ray Andrews

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