for builtin violates Single UNIX Specification

[Ervin Németh]

The Single UNIX Specification, Version 2 (available at
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/) says:

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The format for the for loop is as follows: 

     for name [ in word ... ]
     do
         compound-list
     done

First, the list of words following in will be expanded to generate a list of
items. Then, the variable name will be set to each item, in turn, and the
compound-list executed each time. If no items result from the expansion, the
compound-list will not be executed.
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But

    bash-2.05$ for i in
    bash: syntax error near unexpected token `in'

or

    bash-2.05$ for i in ; do :; done
    bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'


-Ervin Németh
-- 
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