Exit Statements

The exit flow control statement will terminate the execution of the current method and directly exit back to the code that called it.

If the current method has a result type, then exit can optionally provide a return value that will be passed back to the caller. If such a value is provided, it will replace whatever value may already be stored in the result variable. If exit is invoked without a return value, any value already stored in result will be returned.

Invoking exit will break out of any loops and skip executing any further code that is written as part of the current method. exit will honor any code provided in finally sections.

Examples

method Test: String;
begin
  writeLn('Hello');
  result := 'Hello';
  exit;
  writeLn('This line won''t run');
end;

method Test2: String;
begin
  writeLn('Hello');
  exit 'Hello';
  writeLn('This line won''t run');
end;

method Test3;
begin
  writeLn('Hello');
  exit;
  writeLn('This line won''t run');
end;

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