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authorPeter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>2024-02-19 11:10:04 +0000
committerPeter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>2024-02-19 11:10:04 +0000
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52549: document return works in a script
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@@ -1649,7 +1649,9 @@ cindex(functions, returning from)
 item(tt(return) [ var(n) ])(
 Causes a shell function or `tt(.)' script to return to
 the invoking script with the return status specified by
-an arithmetic expression var(n).  
+an arithmetic expression var(n).  Also causes a non-interctive
+shell to exit, allowing files containing shell code to be used
+both as scripts and as autoloadable shell functions.
 For example, the following prints `tt(42)':
 
 example(() { integer foo=40; return "foo + 2" }