Re: bug: can't break/continue from within eval

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/7/17 7:46 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Chet Ramey dixit:
> 
>>> 'break' and 'continue' are POSIX "special builtins", meaning if they
>>> fail they should cause the shell to exit, at least in POSIX mode.
>>
>> Posix explicitly makes this case unspecified.
> 
> Indeed, I just found this out as well, thanks.
> 
> Ibm curiousb& is the 'break' in 'eval break' contained within the
> compound-list of the do loop? (Ibll probably make this work as
> requested nevertheless as I consider it correct, butb& meh, those
> standardsb&)

Yeah, I think it is.

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