bash: bug report Here document and Command substitution

[Yves Crespin]

$bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-slackware-linux-gnu)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$uname -a
Linux linux 2.2.13 #127 Thu Oct 21 13:13:20 CDT 1999 i686 unknown

Description: Here Documents and Command Substitution

The following syntax do not work (parse error).

echo $(cat <<-EOF
        this is a )
        EOF
)

This syntax work. But it's not following the Here document rule:
       This type of redirection instructs the shell to read input
       from the current source until a line containing only  word
       (with  no trailing blanks) is seen.

echo $(cat <<-EOF
        this is a space.
        EOF)

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