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Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function?

From "Ed Morton" <mortonspam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.unix.shell
Subject Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function?
Message-ID <201203051603522493@webuse.net> (permalink)
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Date 2012-03-05 16:03 +0000

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Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote:

> On 2012-03-05, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I agree with you that this - even if considering the "dynamic scope"
> > explanation for bash (and zsh) - is odd. The ksh behaves differently.
> 
> Users of compiled languages will find this odd, because they have
> been conditioned that way.
> 
> It's hardly odd in a dynamic language geared toward interpretation.

The good news is that anyone writing code that uses break to jump through
multiple levels of loops will almost certainly have FAR more problems with their
software than just whether or not the break takes them out of a function so none
of this really matters...

     Ed.

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Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> - 2012-03-05 08:23 +0000
  Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-03-05 01:03 -0800
    Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> - 2012-03-05 09:42 +0000
      Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-03-05 13:59 +0000
      Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-05 15:40 +0100
        Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-03-05 15:18 +0000
          Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? "Ed Morton" <mortonspam@gmail.com> - 2012-03-05 16:03 +0000
            Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-03-05 16:37 +0000
              Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? "Ed Morton" <mortonspam@gmail.com> - 2012-03-05 17:49 +0000
                Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2012-03-05 18:02 +0000
                Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com> - 2012-03-05 17:57 -0600
          Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-05 19:22 +0100
            Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2012-03-05 22:15 +0000
              Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-06 12:04 +0100
                Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2012-03-06 23:10 +0000
              Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-03-07 05:58 +0000
              Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-03-07 05:58 +0000
              Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-03-07 07:25 +0000
                Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2012-03-07 08:57 +0000
                Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-03-07 09:39 +0000
                Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2012-03-08 01:28 +0000
                Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Sven Mascheck <mascheck@email.invalid> - 2012-03-13 22:50 +0000
                Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-03-13 23:00 +0000
                Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-03-14 05:59 +0000
            Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-03-07 05:48 +0000
          Re: Why 'break' even has effects outside of its function? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-03-05 13:29 -0500

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