From: Russell Harmon <russ@eatnumber1.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: err_return inside function who's return value is checked
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:55:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+zrezTHWMmAu-SaZOHYoHQH_ijbYtEVfZ1sCnwWxPKsnUftjQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <121230113526.ZM967@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> This obviously is a case where err_return might be permitted to behave
> differently without causing too much consternation, but that's not how
> it has been defined.
Can this be arranged? It would enable idioms like the following to be used:
function get_major_version {
setopt err_return
[[ $(program -V) =~ "version ([[:digit:]]+)\." ]]
REPLY=$match[1]
}
which I think is quite nice
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-30 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-30 7:52 Russell Harmon
2012-12-30 19:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-12-30 20:55 ` Russell Harmon [this message]
2012-12-30 21:32 ` Bart Schaefer
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