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Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers
Date: 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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