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# 5.4. return statements

Example 5-4. Examples:

    return;
    return x;

    return_statement ==>
            return [ expression ]

return statements are used to return from routine calls. No other statements may follow a return statement in a statement list because they could never be executed. If a routine doesn't have a return value then it may return either by executing a return statement without an expression portion or by executing the last statement in the routine body.

If a routine has a return value, then its return statements must specify expressions whose types are subtypes of the routine's declared return type. Execution of the return statement causes the expression to be evaluated and its value to be returned. It is a fatal error if the final statement executed in such a routine is not a return or raise (See raise statements) statement.

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