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On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:16:28 +0100, Jan Prazak <janp9@gmx.net> wrote:

>1st answer:
>
>return; ?? In a procedure? I will try it.

The return (or RETURN) statement has been the absolutely standard way
of returning from a procedure in many  languages (e.g. FORTRAN 66,
BASIC) for decades. So why the ???? marks? Many assembler languages
also use return for exit from a subroutine (sometimes the mnemonic is
RTS - return from subroutine, sometimes it is RETURN or RET), but the
terminology is the same nevertheless. Maybe it would be a good idea to
learn a bit about programming history .....

(Note also that it is possible to exit from an Ada main program using
return, since an Ada main program is a procedure.)

Steve Sangwine