On 4/7/17 6:56 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> A second thing:
>
> $ mksh -o posix -c 'break; echo $?'
> mksh: break: can't break
> 0
> $ mksh -o posix -c 'continue; echo $?'
> mksh: continue: can't continue
> 0
>
> '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.
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