Re: procedures and return

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier)]

zork:

> I am a little confused about how precedures handle a 'return' statement. I
> have the following:
> 
> procedure my_procedure (...)
> begin
>     if <some_condition> then
>         put("inside if-statement);
>         new_line;
>         return;
>     end if;
>     put ("outside if-statement");
> end my_procedure;
> 
> I am finding that if some_condition *is* satisfied, then the procedure
> prints both put statements i.e.
> 
> inside if-statement
> outside if-statement
> 
> ... i thought 'return' should exit the procedure and return control to where
> the procedure was called. hence only printing "inside if-statement"?

Aren't you calling 'my_procedure' twice, once with <some_condition> = True,
then once with <some_condition> = False ?
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