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* [edbrowse-dev] comma-separated return statements
@ 2019-07-21  6:11 Kevin Carhart
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From: Kevin Carhart @ 2019-07-21  6:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Wow, I should have looked this up many days ago.  There's a phrasing 
created by minimization which is misleading for human readers.

FYI if you don't already know, in the compound return statement,

return a,b,c,d

The a,b,c are simply going to be run.  The real return value is the d.  It 
is not somehow a compound value which draws from all of them because that 
isn't how return works.

So return a,b,c,d is functionally the same as
a;
b;
c;
return d;

And this means that there can be a chance to echo values in between those 
lines.  Otherwise, I thought I was stuck with these impenetrable blocks 
that became illegal if you break them up.



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