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Re: exit to shell from nested function calls.

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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: exit to shell from nested function calls.
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 22:26:49 +0200
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On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 4:22 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> ... the above is part of a function hierarchy can can be four
> levels deep and if there's an error (it's being debugged so there's
> error tests everywhere), I need these 'return 1 ... return 1 ...
> return 1 ... return 1 ... to break back to the shell.

I'd turn this into a script (executable file) and use exit to bail
out. IMO, anything that can be a script is better off as a script.
Programming within the interactive shell is hard enough with all the
aliases, non-standard options and whatnot. No need to inject more code
into it than necessary.

Roman.

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