Re: [Help-bash] subtle "break" strangeness

[Chet Ramey]

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On 9/3/13 10:53 AM, Chris Down wrote:
> On 2013-09-03 10:16, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> How can it?  The subshell started to run `break' understands that it is
>> running in a loop -- it inherits that understanding from its parent --
>> but there is no way to communicate the `breaking' status from a child
>> back to its parent.
> 
> Like I said in the other thread, I think that we should reset context-specific
> flags in children (except for when the child is the entirety of the function
> definition, in the case of function definitions).

Except where they are required to persist -- for inheriting `set -e'
exceptions, for example.  Then you have even more of an inconsistent
mess.

Chet
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