[fpc-pascal] exit ?

[Adriaan van Os]

Jonas Maebe wrote:

>> 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").

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