hi all,

new pascal guy, but not a new programmer.

i'm used to being able to use the "return" reserved word in Java and 'C' to be able to short circuit the execution of a function/method.

over and above any philisophical judgments on my programming technique, I see Free Pascal has a reserved word 'exit' that mimics "return" ?

Is some analogy to "return" not supported in the official pascal dialect ?

is 'exit' the only way to do this, and obviously, not portable to other compilers ?

is there another token that i could/should use ?

i do know that there is goto/label, but i would prefer not to use that, as that construct has been beat into my head over the years as being very bad.

tia,
Tony

Tony Pelton wrote

over and above any philisophical judgments on my programming technique, I see Free Pascal has a reserved word 'exit' that mimics "return" ?

Yes.

Is some analogy to "return" not supported in the official pascal dialect ?

exit with a parameter is not supported in other compilers afaik (e.g. exit(5), equivalent to "return 5"). It may exist in Delphi (I've never used Delphi), but it definitely does not exist in Turbo Pascal.

is 'exit' the only way to do this, and obviously, not portable to other compilers ?

Exit without a parameter is supported in Turbo Pascal and Delphi.

is there another token that i could/should use ?

Not that I can think of.

Jonas

Perhaps combinations of RESULT and EXIT may help?
   if TimeToLeave then begin
     Result := 5;
     Exit;
   end else ....

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UCSD Pascal has

EXIT( procedurename)
EXIT( programname)
EXIT( PROGRAM)

Macintosh Pascal compilers support EXIT( procedurename) and EXIT( PROGRAM). EXIT( procedurename) has been implemented in GNU Pascal recently.

> is 'exit' the only way to do this, and obviously, not portable to > other compilers ? Exit without a parameter is supported in Turbo Pascal and Delphi.

Delphi has the built-in "Result" variable and GNU Pascal (also) has "Return".

Regards,

Adriaan van Os

One could wonder whether return really exits or not. I guess exit is more obvious. ReturnAndExit is a bit verbose I suppose.

Another thing to do is go

result:=5; Exit;

on the same line

Lars

exit with a parameter is not supported in other compilers afaik (e.g. exit(5), equivalent to "return 5"). It may exist in Delphi

Not in D6-D7 to my knowledge. D2005 unknown.