Re: assign to magic name-of-function variable instead of "return"

[Peter Scott]

At 07:12 PM 2/1/01 -0600, David L. Nicol wrote:
>I recalled hearing about a language (was it java?) where
>you set the return value of a function (was it VB?) by
>assigning to the name of the function within the function body,
>so the last line would be
>
>         fname=rval;
>
>or fname could be used instead of rval all through it.

Ah, an homage to Pascal :-)

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies