Re: Bug or Feature? Always block triggered by return in subshell within function

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 11, 2025, at 2:55 PM, Philippe Altherr wrote:
> I find the manual a little confusing because the first sentence 
> mentions an exceptional behavior of return and exit statements. Then 
> the last sentence states that otherwise return statements work as 
> expected but so do exit statements, except if they are directly within 
> a subshell. There is actually no explanation of why such exit 
> statements don't trigger the always block.

FWIW, the yodl source Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo contains this:

	COMMENT(The semantics of calling 'exit' in try-list inside
	a function are deliberately left unspecified, because
	historically there was a mismatch between the documented and
	implemented behaviours.  Cf. 20076, 21734/21735, 45075.)
	)

https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/zsh-5.9.0.2-test/tree/Doc/Zsh/grammar.yo

Here are the referenced messages in the mailing list archive:

workers/20076: https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2004/msg00729.html
workers/21734: https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2005/msg01089.html
workers/21735: https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2005/msg01090.html
workers/45075: https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2019/msg01107.html

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