Re: Feature request

[Greg Wooledge]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 05:27:38PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>   | What cannot be controlled is the exit value if the block is not executed
>   | i.e. if the initial evaluation of the condition is false.  In that case,
>   | the exit value is always zero.
> 
> That's what the standard says it has to be.   But since "if the initial
> evaluation of the condition is false" can be tested before getting to the
> while test, it is trivial to deal with this, [...]

Not in the general case, "while somecommand".  Running "somecommand"
may have nontrivial costs and side effects that would prevent you from
wanting to run it twice.

But as Oğuz said, it's simple to control this with an additional variable.