Always wondered how the parser managed the ambiguity between & for file descriptors and & to start background tasks. (And without a good mental model, I kept fo

Always wondered how the parser managed the ambiguity between & for file descriptors and & to start background tasks. (And without a good mental model, I kept forgetting where to put the & correctly in redirects) Treating ">&" as a distinct operator actually makes an elegant solution here. I like the idea.