[fpc-pascal] exit ?

[Paul Davidson]

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

On May 25, 2005, at 12:33, Jonas Maebe wrote:

>
> On 25 mei 2005, at 18:20, 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
>
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