From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: return builtin to end a script
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:24:45 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <649539330.4169803.1708093485977@mail.virginmedia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240216125826.GA96417@qaa.vinc17.org>
> On 16/02/2024 12:58 GMT Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
>
>
> The return builtin is currently specified only for shell functions
> and "." scripts, while it would also be useful to end a script,
> for instance to be able to use zsh script both as commands (e.g.
> from non-zsh shells) and as autoloaded functions in zsh.
>
> So I think that it would be useful to extend it to end a script.
I remember adding this a long time ago now.
% zsh <<<'echo Hello
quote> return
quote> echo Goodbye'
Hello
It looks like the documentation is defective.
pws
>
> --
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-16 14:25 UTC|newest]
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2024-02-16 12:58 Vincent Lefevre
2024-02-16 14:24 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2024-02-16 15:00 ` Peter Stephenson
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