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2.  One of the bugs fixed in the YACC grammar tightens up the rules
    concerning group commands ( {...} ).  The `list' that composes the
    body of the group command must be terminated by a newline or
    semicolon.  That's because the braces are reserved words, and
	are recognized as such only when a reserved word is legal.  This
	means that while bash-1.14 accepted shell function definitions
	like this:

    foo() { : }

    bash-2.0 requires this:

    foo() { :; }

    This is also an issue for commands like this:

    mkdir dir || { echo 'could not mkdir' ; exit 1; }

Kurt
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