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Re: 'continue' does not work in files sourced with dotcmd

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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 'continue' does not work in files sourced with dotcmd
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:09:36 +0800
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On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:18:12AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> Meanwhile, I still have to wonder about dash behavior - if dash is _not_
> treating continue as a syntax error, then why is it aborting the dot
> script?  Compare:

This is a consequence of the way continue/break/return is implemented
in dash.

As this construct cannot be used portably anyway, I'm not inclined to
make any changes unless you can do it without increasing the code
size.

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- Re: 'continue' does not work in files sourced with dotcmd
  - From: Eric Blake

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