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Date:	Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:58:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	Lev Bishop <lev DOT bishop AT gmail DOT com>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Broken parse on `'${'`
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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Lev Bishop wrote:

> On 07/07/05, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> > zsh$ bash
> > bash$ echo `echo '${'`
> > >
> > # Hmm - I was just incorrectly presented PS2, asking to try to continue
> > what bash thought was an incomplete ${ variable substitution
>
> Actually, this is a bad example, because even if bash did parse
> correctly, there would be still an incomplete ${ substitution for the
> outer echo

I'm not sure that's correct -- bash doesn't do variable substitution on
input, does it?
	Igor
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