Re: Bug in syntax checking causes unintended running of a function

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/19/16 7:52 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 07:45:27AM -0700, David Maas wrote:
>> Running the echo and other contents of the function really doesn't seem
>> like the correct behavior. If the function isn't called, then its contents
>> shouldn't be executed.
> 
> I believe the theory is the syntax error is confusing the parser to the
> point where it can't even tell that it's supposed to be in a function
> definition.  So it starts reading and executing lines of code.

This is wrong.

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