Re: Potential ksh bug?

On Nov 17 09:01:18, alexander@beard.se wrote:
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> On November 17, 2020 5:04:19 AM GMT+01:00, Jordan Geoghegan <jordan@geoghegan.ca> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if it's just a pdksh thing, but I
> >stumbled upon some interesting behaviour when I was tinkering around
> >with quoting and using a poor mans array:
> >
> >test=$(cat <<'__EOT'
> ># I'll choose not to close this quote
> >other_stuff
> >__EOT
> >)
> >
> >echo "$test"
> >
> >
> >When I run this command on ash, dash, yash, bash, zsh or ksh93 I get
> >the
> >following output:
> >
> ># I'll choose not to close this quote
> >other_stuff
> >
> >But when I run it on ksh from base or any pdksh derivative it throws an
> >
> >error about an unclosed quote:
> >
> >test.sh[8]: no closing quote
>
> I believe this is a known shortcoming of how ksh determines the scope of the $(...).

Does that also mean the 8th line in a 7-line script?