Subject: Re: [PATCH] typeset: set $? on incidental error
From: Mikael Magnusson <[email-masked]>
To: Daniel Shahaf <[email-masked]>
Cc: Eric Cook <[email-masked]>, zsh workers <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:46:09 +0100
List-Id: Zsh Workers List <zsh-workers.zsh.org>

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Daniel Shahaf <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Eric Cook wrote on Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 00:24:36 -0500:
>> On 01/13/2016 07:13 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> > The 'typeset' family of builtins doesn't set $? when one would expect it
>> > to do so:
>> >
>> >     % x=$(true) y=$(exit 42); echo $?
>> >     42
>> >     % local x=$(true) y=$(exit 42); echo $?
>> >     0
>> >
>> > This patch makes 'typeset' behave as ordiary assignment does.
>>
>>
>> But who expects that?
>
> I did.

local/typeset is a command, and it was successful, so I don't see why
$? should be set to anything else than 0.
% true x=$(false); echo $?
0
is technically exactly the same situation as your above second command.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson