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diff --git a/README b/README index f711b1738..d59ddfebb 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -81,6 +81,19 @@ against user defined widgets inadvertently reading from the tty device, and addresses the antisocial behaviour of running a command with its stdin closed. +5) [New between 5.4.1 and 5.4.2] In previous versions of the shell, the +following code: + + () { setopt err_return; false; echo 'oh no' } && true + +printed "oh no", as the ERR_RETURN behaviour was suppressed when +a function was executed on the left hand side of an "&&" list. This was +undocumented and inconvenient as it is generally more useful to consider +execution within a function in isolation from its environment. The shell +now returns from the function on executing `false'. (This is general +to all functions; an anonymous function is shown here for compactness.) + + Incompatibilities between 5.0.8 and 5.3 ---------------------------------------- |