From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: exit to shell from nested function calls.
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 22:26:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMpJh2dzEzik-XCKz-Cyddi1Sq2AUbWBtNSr0s4j5EbhCQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b97bc99-1d92-46f1-8841-c757d1dcee68@eastlink.ca>
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 4:22 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> ... the above is part of a function hierarchy can can be four
> levels deep and if there's an error (it's being debugged so there's
> error tests everywhere), I need these 'return 1 ... return 1 ...
> return 1 ... return 1 ... to break back to the shell.
I'd turn this into a script (executable file) and use exit to bail
out. IMO, anything that can be a script is better off as a script.
Programming within the interactive shell is hard enough with all the
aliases, non-standard options and whatnot. No need to inject more code
into it than necessary.
Roman.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-16 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-16 14:21 Ray Andrews
2024-05-16 20:26 ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2024-05-16 21:28 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-17 15:40 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-05-17 15:58 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-17 16:46 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-05-17 17:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-05-17 17:36 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-05-17 18:52 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-17 19:00 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-05-17 20:28 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-18 2:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-05-17 17:29 ` Thomas Lauer
2024-05-17 18:43 ` Ray Andrews
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