A block allows the introduction of a new variable scope, redirection of the input or output of a set of commands as a group, or to specify precedence when using the conditional commands like `and`.
The block is unconditionally executed. `begin; ...; end` is equivalent to `if true; ...; end`.
`begin` does not change the current exit status itself. After the block has completed, `$status` will be set to the status returned by the most recent command.
\subsection begin-example Example
The following code sets a number of variables inside of a block scope. Since the variables are set inside the block and have local scope, they will be automatically deleted when the block ends.
\fish
begin
set -l PIRATE Yarrr
...
end
echo $PIRATE
# This will not output anything, since the PIRATE variable
# went out of scope at the end of the block
\endfish
In the following code, all output is redirected to the file out.html.
