Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: Add awk wrapper - eawk - edit file in place

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 19 May 2016, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:

> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> writes:
>> Yes, of course. "|| die -n || return" if you want the function to
>> return at that point, if it was called under nonfatal.
>>
>>> https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2015/11/13/the-ultimate-guide-to-eapi-6
>>
>> Note that the ${?} in the code example there is redundant.

> Why redundant? I imagine we can call it like:

>     if ! nonfatal efoo; then
>         do_something_on_error
>     fi

> can't we?

The status of the last command will be returned in any case, so there
is no difference between "|| return" and "|| return $?".

Ulrich