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  3. March 2004

Re: Ignoring a RETURN'ed value

Hello,

> I'm going to refactor the program to RETURN the value.  But I don't want
> to change the thousands of places it's used in hundreds of programs.  Yes,
> I could write a new program, but I donwanna.

Programs can't return values with the RETURN op-code.  Did you mean a
procedure?

> The question: if I have a return field specified in the prototype but do a
> CALLP  {program}(parm1: parm2) instead of doing EVAL {result} =
> {program}(parm1), will there be h^ll (with a nod to the SMEX luddites) to
> pay?

Nope, just a severity level 0 warning in the compile listing...  Your plan
will work perfectly, aside from the fact that program's can't return
values :)

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