Re: declare -f changes 'elif' to 'else if'

[Greg Wooledge]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 03:27:50PM +0100, sukolyn via wrote:
> $ myFunc() { if test foo; then : ; elif test bar; then : ; else : ; fi;}
> 
> $ declare -f myFunc
> 
> myFunc ()
> {
>     if test foo; then
>         :;
>     else
>         if test bar; then
>             :;
>         else
>             :;
>         fi;
>     fi
> }
> 
> `else' should be subordonate(?) to main `if' (i.e. `foo' command), not to
> inner if (`bar' command)

Well, they're both equivalent.  So the transformation, while surprising,
isn't *wrong*.

I didn't know bash performed that transformation internally, but I can
see it as reasonable.