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Re: Return statement must have 1 value? [message #10099]

Wed, 22 October 1997 00:00

D.Kennedy
Messages: 26
Registered: January 1997

Junior Member

In article <62j96i$315$1@news.qub.ac.uk>,
D.Kennedy@qub.ac.uk (David Kennedy) writes:
> % Return statement in functions must have 1 value.
> return answer

Thanks to those who emailed to point out that I had forgotten the
comma in the above statement. I am, of course, a complete fool.

(I wouldn't mind but I had three other functions in the same file
with the correct syntax. I _knew_ I had been staring at something
obvious...)
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David Kennedy, Dept. of Pure & Applied Physics, Queen's University of Belfast
Email: D.Kennedy@Queens-Belfast.ac.uk | URL: http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~dcjk/
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Re: Return statement must have 1 value? [message #10105 is a reply to message #10099]

Tue, 21 October 1997 00:00

davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996

Senior Member

David Kennedy has really been working too many late hours
when he writes:

> In the course of some quick and dirty data reduction I've hit a weird
> bug with the RETURN keyword. Its really confusing me (as well as stopping
> me from progressing with the work!). Help appreciated.
>
> It says:
> return answer
> ^
> % Return statement in functions must have 1 value.

Uh, try a comma, David. ;-)

Return, answer

Cheers,

(And go get some sleep, man!)

David

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