Embedded if/endif in while/end doesn't work in csh

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From: Jerry Natowitz
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 1990 13:23

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I have been going crazy with what is either a bug, or an undocumented
feature of csh.  I can not embedd an if/endif with a while/end
(or foreach/end) or vice-versa.  It seems as if csh is interpreting
the endif as an end (or vice-versa).

I vaguely recall some discussion of having to use two end statements
in some csh context, is this related?

BTW: I have demonstrated this both on Epoch running BSD 4.3 and on
SunOS 4.0.3
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From: jin@spdcc.COM (Jerry Natowitz)
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Subject: Embedded if/endif in while/end doesn't work in csh
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Date: 24 Oct 90 13:23:15 GMT
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Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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