From a6ea12286709273e7896916dc8a107cd52f01d26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Stephenson
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:10:04 +0000
Subject: 52549: document return works in a script
---
ChangeLog | 7 ++++++-
Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4ed8e919d..e3762340a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-2024-02-19 Jun-ichi Takimoto
+2024-02-19 Peter Stephenson
+
+ * 52549: Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo: document that return already works
+ in a script.
+
+x2024-02-19 Jun-ichi Takimoto
* 52544: Completion/Unix/Type/_diff_options: support macOS Ventura
or newer
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
index 1aa807633..7a8654f27 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
@@ -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" }
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