>> Also, the zsh issue has to be understood better (and could be a deal
>> breaker, though I don't think so).
>
> It basically means that you cannot call exit nor trap inside a shell
> function. Nor can you use $? at the start of a function. But you'll
> deal with that anyway since you will want to put something like
> $as_debug
>
> at the start of each function (either being empty, or 'set -x'), for
> ksh.
Do you want to put that in AS_REQUIRE_SHELL_FN? It's fine by me.
> So, whenever you expand (or eval) arbitrary text into a shell function,
> there is a potential problem.
But it is not arbitrary text. See my message in the other thread.
> I'm not quite sure how prevalent systems with this zsh are (but probably
> still too common to completely ignore them). Even when we can ignore
> them, the script header should be sure to error out for such systems
> (because the corruption is silent, and hard to detect).
... and in fact IIRC this shell will be ignored by the better-shell loop
because it fails one of the tests; I think it is as_func_failure:
as_func_return ()
{
(exit $1)
}
as_func_failure ()
{
as_func_return 1
}
as_func_failure && echo as_func_failure succeeded.
Paolo
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