On 6/8/20 10:02 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 6/8/20 7:24 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> This is part of the set -e nightmare, which is what we keep trying to >> get you (and everyone else) to understand. > > Most of the issue with `set -e' is folks not understanding when it's > not in effect.
Well, Greg does have a pretty good point (which is a point I for one prioritize in my decision process for "do I personally recommend the use of set -e") in that another part of the issue is its doing different things across point releases of a shell. And that's not counting the times when the issue is people not understanding when it *is* in effect. Or people who know exactly when it is and isn't in effect, and have no issue, but decline to use it because the precise nature of "when it is and isn't in effect" decreases the usefulness of it sufficiently to make them decide they're better off implementing error checking a different way... and *that* is, I think, what Greg is pointing out. -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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