Re: why not promote the plague ? (brace|rc|alternative|modern) syntax

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 7:20 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> What matters is robust code.  I've been convinced that:
>
> for (( ...))
> {
> ...
> }
>
> ... is stable, but for everything else stick with do/done  or then/fi.

Keep in mind that the setopt for those sans-do/done shapes is
SHORT_loops.  In C-think, that means something like "cuddled" braces
-- minimal vertical whitespace.  But the other thing to remember is
that a newline in shell is like a semicolon in C, and throwing in
extra statement terminators is likely to get you in trouble.