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Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> Build-in-place is determined by the type, not by the
> syntactic form of the return statement.

I'm not sure I see any point to the extended return statement. Wouldn't it have 
been clearer and simpler to have done something like

    Result : return T;
    ...
begin
    ...
    return Result;

with a rule that only 1 "return variable" may be in scope at a time?

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I spun around, and there I was, face to face with a
six-year-old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and
walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass."
Blazing Saddles
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