Re: bash2 can't parse function definitions inside if statements

[Jehsom]

clgonsal@kami.com wrote:
>     function greet () { echo hello "$*" }
>     function greet () { echo goodbye "$*" }

It says clearly in the COMPAT file included with bash-2.04 that a set
of commands in braces now require a semicolon and/or newline before the
closing brace. It was actually incorrect that bash1 accepted the incor-
rect syntax.

Moshe

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