Re: Bug or feature?

[Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu>]

Loren James Rittle <rittle@comm.mot.com> writes:

> It appears that the internal 'time' command doesn't like a 'for' loop
> yet other internal shell commands are acceptable.  Bug or feature?

Well.  `for' is a special form.  I suspect that it would be fine if you
wrapped it in a lambda.
 
> [ rittle@supra ]; time for (i=1 2 3) echo hi
> syntax error
> [ rittle@supra ]; for (i=1 2 3) echo hi
> hi
> hi
> hi

; time @ { for (i=1 2 3) echo hi }
hi
hi
hi
     0r     0.0u     0.0s       @ * {for(i=1 2 3)echo hi}

Soren