Re: [Help-bash] break and continue inside subshells

[Glenn Morris]

Thanks for the helpful answers, everybody.

Dan Douglas wrote:

> The subshell is still aware of its context (being that it's a fork
> with essentially a copy of the parent environment), it just is
> isolated from the parent process and can't affect its control flow, so
> a jump to the end of the subshell seems reasonable.

It doesn't seem that reasonable to me. I could/would have written "exit"
if I just wanted to jump to the end of the subshell. If I wrote "break",
then I almost certainly have a bug, and it would be nice if bash warned
me about it, like it does when there is no containing loop at all.