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From: Michael Greenberg <michael@greenberg.science>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: `return` does not behave properly under `!`
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:18:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2a640qtt8.fsf@greenberg.science> (raw)

Following up an example from Harald van Dijk on the dash mailing list, I
discovered that zsh does not `return` properly under a `!`. Here are
four example programs:

```
f() {
    while return 5
    do  
        echo fail while1
        break
    done    
}
f
echo $?

g() {
    while ! return 6
    do  
        echo fail while2
        break
    done    
}
g
echo $?

h() {
    while return 7 && return 8
    do  
      echo fail while3
      break 
    done
}
h
echo $?

i() {
  ! return 9
  echo fail not
}
i
echo $?
```

I would expect the output:

```
5
6
7
9
```

But zsh produces:

```
5
0
7
0
```

The dash shell has a similar bug (no link, since the mailing list
archives aren't up yet), as does yash
<https://osdn.net/projects/yash/ticket/46224>.

Cheers,
Michael


             reply	other threads:[~2022-12-06 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-06 18:18 Michael Greenberg [this message]
2022-12-07  4:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-07  8:42 ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-12-07 15:05   ` Michael Greenberg
2022-12-07 16:01     ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-12-07 16:16       ` Peter Stephenson
2022-12-07 17:06         ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-07 17:21           ` Peter Stephenson
2022-12-07 18:51             ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-07 17:10       ` Michael Greenberg
2022-12-09 15:22         ` Michael Greenberg
2022-12-09 16:21           ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-09 19:20             ` Michael Greenberg
2022-12-07 16:08     ` Bart Schaefer

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