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     SBasic User's Manual     SBasic Version 2.7             Page 44
     Printed:  December 5, 1999
     The RETURN statement


     SBasic's RETURN statement serves two functions.  You can use it to
     return control from a subroutine, and you can use it to return control
     from an interrupt.  For details on processing interrupts, see the
     Interrupts section below.

     When used in main-line code (code not in an interrupt service
     routine), RETURN generates the proper code to return control from a
     subroutine.  For the 68hc11 and 68hc12 MCUs, this is an RTS
     instruction.

     Note that SBasic does not check to see if you are using a RETURN
     statement after a label.  A RETURN statement always generates a
                                                  ______
     Return-from-Subroutine instruction in main-line code, regardless of
     where it occurs.

     When used in an interrupt section, RETURN generates the proper code to
     return control from an interrupt or exception.  For the 68hc11 and
     68hc12 MCUs, this is an RTI instruction.

     Additionally, a RETURN statement in main-line code may optionally
     include a value that will be returned to the calling routine.  For
     example:

          return                        ' this statement just returns
          return  j+3                   ' this statement returns a value

     You may include a RETURN statement with a returned value at any point
     in your code, even inside an interrupt section.  However, the returned
     value will only have meaning if it occurs in main-line code, and even
     then only if control is returning to a USR() invocation.  Returned
     values to a GOSUB are ignored, as are returned values from an
     interrupt section.