On 2013-07-30 12:45, Pierre Gaston wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Chris Down <ch...@binary.com> wrote: > > On 2013-07-30 12:11, Pierre Gaston wrote: > >> what about things like this: foo () ( return 1; ) > > > > Except in this case, the return has a valid context. I don't see how it's > > really > > comparable to the represented case. > > It's a return in a subshell in a function, i don't think the > comparison is far fetched.
Except in this case the function and the subshell are linked constructs.
> I see what you mean, but that raises the question of what's a valid context.
> Should we make a special case if the subshell is the "outer" compound
> command of a function?
I am not totally convinced that this is a special case since the subshell
basically becomes the declaration.
> The same thing with by break and continue example:
>
> while :;do ( while :;do break 2; done);echo foo;done
>
> Should this raise an error? is the break in a loop context? what's a
> loop context?
Well, breaking to an undef level is already allowed and doesn't return an error
(although I think that's not your point).
$ while :; do break 999; done
$ echo $?
0
If you mean "should it break the outer loop", then my opinion is no.
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