Re: [jamboost] Jam's "return" oddity.

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-27 10:02:50

I don't think it would be bad to investigate, but I think actually doing it
is non-trivial. Note also that because our support for modules introduced
stack frames, I doubt Perforce would ever pick up the modification.

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]>
To: <jamboost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 8:16 AM
Subject: [jamboost] Jam's "return" oddity.

>
> Hi,
> As you probably know, Jam's "return" statement does not return, but
instead
> remembers its argument as rule exit status. It constantly makes me wrap
code
> inside if/else block when all I want is to quickly handle some corner
case at
> a rule beginning. I plan to investigate if "return" can be fixed. Do you
> think it's a good idea?
>
> - Volodya
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