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From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Peter Stephenson" <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: New problem with ERR_RETURN ?
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 01:05:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb8df6b1-4ea6-454b-846e-c6f582ff3a86@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1536100214.2124060.1670432862096@mail.virginmedia.com>

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022, at 12:07 PM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> @@ -1772,6 +1775,12 @@ function, code inside it is considered 
> separately: it may force a return
>  from tt(summit) (assuming the option remains set within tt(summit)), 
> but
>  not from the enclosing context.  This behaviour is different from
>  tt(ERR_EXIT) which is unaffected by function scope.
> +
> +It should also be noted that this option forces an immediate
> +return to the command prompt when the non-zero status occurs
> +in a sequence of commands typed on the command line.  In other
> +words, the sequence of commands typed by the user may be
> +thought of as a function for this purpose.
>  )
>  pindex(EVAL_LINENO)
>  pindex(NO_EVAL_LINENO)

Bikeshedding perhaps, but this sentence already exists just above:

	This will trigger an exit at the outermost level of a
	non-interactive script.

Maybe any new text should come right after this?  That would keep
the explanations about how ERR_RETURN affects behavior at the top
level in one place.

-- 
vq


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-08  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-07 16:17 Bart Schaefer
2022-12-07 16:37 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-12-07 16:41 ` Philippe Altherr
2022-12-07 16:53   ` Peter Stephenson
2022-12-07 17:02     ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-07 17:07       ` Peter Stephenson
2022-12-08  6:05         ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2022-12-08  9:24           ` Peter Stephenson
2022-12-07 16:58   ` Bart Schaefer

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