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Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 21:42:05 -0400
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On Monday, August 08, 2011 21:20:29 Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 8/8/11 8:53 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > However, you are on to something - since bash allows 'exit -1' as an
> > extension, it should similarly allow 'return -1' as the same sort of
> > extension.  The fact that bash accepts 'exit -1' and 'exit -- -1', but
> > only 'return -- -1', is the real point that you are complaining about.
> 
> That's a reasonable extension to consider for the next release of bash.

i posted a patch for this quite a while ago.  not that it's hard to code.
-mike

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