(j3.2006) Note 8.30 in F2008

[Bill Long]

An interesting question arose regarding the suggestion in Note 8.30 that 
the <stop-code> be returned as the exit status, or that the exit status 
be zero if no <stop-code> is supplied.  The way it is written, the 
recommendation applies equally to STOP and ERROR STOP.  For STOP it 
makes sense.   Did we really mean that for ERROR STOP, where the default 
exit status would seem more naturally to be the value corresponding to 
"abort", such as 1, and not 0.   Similarly, if the user wrote

ERROR STOP 0

does it make sense to have the impression of "success" returned as the 
exit status?

There seems to be a disconnect with user expectations here, particularly 
in the default case.

Cheers,
Bill



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