/bin/sh feature?

[geoff at callan.UUCP]

Regardless of the fact that there was an unmatched quote on the line with
the colon, why doesn't /bin/sh complain about the "unterminated" string?  I
don't especially mind it continuing past the unescaped newline (although
even that feature is poor design), but uncomplainingly taking the end of the
file as a matching quote is just plain sloppy programming--something you
find a lot in the Bourne shell.
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	Geoff Kuenning
	Callan Data Systems
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