Re: Bug in function return statement in while subshell

[Chris Down]

On 2013-07-30 10:18, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> After the fork() which creates the subshell, each of the two processes
> (parent and child) is still within its own instance of the function.
> The "return" command executed in the child causes the child's function
> to terminate, but this does not cause the parent's function to terminate.

I think we all understand the technical reasons *why* this occurs, that has
seemed clear since the beginning. My concern is that I think it is semantically
wrong to act as if we are still in a function when in a child, and accept a
return statement there.

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