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

[Greg Wooledge]

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.