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Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers |
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Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:14:32 -0400 |
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On 8/8/11 9:42 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday, August 08, 2011 21:20:29 Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 8/8/11 8:53 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> However, you are on to something - since bash allows 'exit -1' as an
>>> extension, it should similarly allow 'return -1' as the same sort of
>>> extension. The fact that bash accepts 'exit -1' and 'exit -- -1', but
>>> only 'return -- -1', is the real point that you are complaining about.
>>
>> That's a reasonable extension to consider for the next release of bash.
>
> i posted a patch for this quite a while ago. not that it's hard to code.
Sure. It's just removing the three lines of code that were added
between bash-3.2 and bash-4.0. The question was always whether that's
the right thing to do, and whether the result will behave as Posix
requires.
Chet
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- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, (continued)
- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Bob Proulx, 2011/08/07
- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Linda Walsh, 2011/08/08
- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Jon Seymour, 2011/08/11
- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Chet Ramey, 2011/08/07
- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Eric Blake, 2011/08/08
- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Linda Walsh, 2011/08/08
- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Chet Ramey, 2011/08/08
- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Mike Frysinger, 2011/08/08
- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers,
Chet Ramey <=
- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Linda Walsh, 2011/08/08
- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Eric Blake, 2011/08/09
- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Chet Ramey, 2011/08/09
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- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Stephane CHAZELAS, 2011/08/11
- Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Linda Walsh, 2011/08/11
Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers, Dennis Williamson, 2011/08/05