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Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers


From: Linda Walsh
Subject: Re: bug: return doesn't accept negative numbers
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:48:55 -0700
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Chet Ramey wrote:

Sure.  It's just removing the three lines of code that were added
between bash-3.2 and bash-4.0.  The question was always whether that's
the right thing to do, and whether the result will behave as Posix
requires.
----
        That explains why I never ran into this before!  You broke previous
compat! Was there a note to this effect? I don't remember it, but could have
easily missed it...


        So why not limit that behavior to when "--posix" is in effect?



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