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On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Peter Stephenson
<p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If you mean you'd rather blind me with code than state the rule...
> that worked.

I wasn't expecting any response at all other than perhaps some
amusement, but as long as we're stating rules:

> - If no "in", use positional parameters.
> - Otherwsie, any words after "in" are the arguments to loop over,
> taken in batches of the number of arguments before "in".  The
> words are no longer subject to anything more than normal argument
> processing.

Except that "do" is a keyword, so it ends normal argument processing.
(This is the point of Stephane's follow-up.)



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