[Toybox] is orthodoxy a strong value of toybox?

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/1/22 1:24 PM, Rob Landley wrote:


> Hey Chet: why doesn't bash accept non-compound commands as functions? I have
> wondered. Apparently other shells disagree on this...?

Because the POSIX grammar says a function body is a compound command,
optionally followed by a redirection list, and I never saw the need to
extend that.

function_definition : fname '(' ')' linebreak function_body
                  ;
function_body    : compound_command                /* Apply rule 9 */
                  | compound_command redirect_list  /* Apply rule 9 */
                  ;

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