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Re: Return Ambiguity

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  • Subject: [mg97542] Re: Return Ambiguity
  • From: Ray Koopman <koopman at sfu.ca>
  • Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:17:35 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <gpaotd$qeb$1@smc.vnet.net>

On Mar 12, 3:41 am, Raffy <ra... at mac.com> wrote:
> How do you determine how far Return actually returns?  I have avoided
> using this function after having difficult getting it to return to the
> proper level of execution.
>
> In general, does it return to the nearest held expression?
> The documentation is really ambiguous.

I asked the same question a while back. See the thread
"Where does Return return to?", June 7-9, 2004:

http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/browse_frm/thread/f105cc68d42a589

(It's a long URL; watch for a line break that shouldn't be there.)


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