Re: i++ cause bad return code when result is 1

[Chris Down]

On 2013-08-26 21:36, David Lehmann wrote:
> My issue is that the resulting behavior in Exercise 1 does not make sense.
> 
> The resulting value of i should have no bearing on the exit code.  If the
> addition succeeded, the expression should return 0 (success).  If i was not
> an integer (e.g. i=hello), then I expect (( i++ )) to return a non-zero
> error code.
> 
> ...IMHO, of course.

That would be pretty much rewriting the entire way that (( works, since the
whole point is that it returns a status based upon having a return value that
is >0. Compare:

    $ (( 0 )); echo "$?"
    1
    $ (( 1 )); echo "$?"
    0

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