On 2/17/21 11:56 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
Chet can explain more if he feels it is warranted, but I believe that even
today, bash uses a very heuristic type of almost pretend to be a parser
to deal with these things - not really parsing them fully (not until they're
to be executed, where the issues all go away, as at that point, nothing
else is being parsed) but attempting to handle most cases so things work
for real code.
I'd add that the reason I did this back in 2008 was that it was just
about impossible to have a re-entrant bison parser (one that calls
yyparse() recursively) and completely impossible to do portably with
yacc. The situation with bison may have improved.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
