Re: [Help-bash] Awkward behavior of empty arrays

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/7/17 12:23 PM, Andy Chu wrote:

> I did a very principled implementation of errexit in OSH.  I didn't find
> any problems with it in THEORY.  Yes in practice bash has surprising
> behavior, but in theory it's a good idea, and it's not hard to implement.
> There are just a handful of places where you turn it off: the condition of
> while/until loops, if conditions, all clauses in && and || except the last
> clause, etc.
> 
> The main thing I disallowed was the weird behavior mutating errexit while
> it's disabled, which bash has a somewhat odd rule for.  Example:

Which Posix requires.

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