Re: [FWP] Fun with POD

["Abigail" <abigail@foad.org>]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 03:06:09PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:41:10PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 01:34:08AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > > 
> > > :() { : | : } ; :
> > 
> > That doesn't compile. Perhaps you meant:
> > 
> >   :(); { :: | :: } ;
> 
> I suspect he meant
> 
>     :() { : | : ;} ; :
> 
> (define a recursively-forking bash function called ':', and call it)
> 
> although the original will probably work in version 1 of bash, which
> is less strict about requiring a semi-colon before a "}".
> 
> Fun with bash! :-)


Oh, I thought he was writing Perl. ;-)


Abigail

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