return(n) Tcl Built-In Commands return(n)______________________________________________________________________________NAMEreturn - Return from a procedure
SYNOPSISreturn ?-code code? ?-errorinfo info? ?-errorcode code? ?string?
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
Return immediately from the current procedure (or top-level command or
source command), with string as the return value. If string is not
specified then an empty string will be returned as result.
EXCEPTIONAL RETURNS
In the usual case where the -code option isn't specified the procedure
will return normally (its completion code will be TCL_OK). However,
the -code option may be used to generate an exceptional return from the
procedure. Code may have any of the following values:
ok Normal return: same as if the option is omitted.
error Error return: same as if the error command were used to ter‐
minate the procedure, except for handling of errorInfo and
errorCode variables (see below).
return The current procedure will return with a completion code of
TCL_RETURN, so that the procedure that invoked it will return
also.
break The current procedure will return with a completion code of
TCL_BREAK, which will terminate the innermost nested loop in
the code that invoked the current procedure.
continue The current procedure will return with a completion code of
TCL_CONTINUE, which will terminate the current iteration of
the innermost nested loop in the code that invoked the cur‐
rent procedure.
value Value must be an integer; it will be returned as the comple‐
tion code for the current procedure.
The -code option is rarely used. It is provided so that procedures
that implement new control structures can reflect exceptional condi‐
tions back to their callers.
Two additional options, -errorinfo and -errorcode, may be used to pro‐
vide additional information during error returns. These options are
ignored unless code is error.
The -errorinfo option specifies an initial stack trace for the error‐
Info variable; if it is not specified then the stack trace left in
errorInfo will include the call to the procedure and higher levels on
the stack but it will not include any information about the context of
the error within the procedure. Typically the info value is supplied
from the value left in errorInfo after a catch command trapped an error
within the procedure.
If the -errorcode option is specified then code provides a value for
the errorCode variable. If the option is not specified then errorCode
will default to NONE.
KEYWORDS
break, continue, error, procedure, returnTcl 7.0 return(n)