RETURN statement

Use the RETURN statement to:

Return control from an error routine or an attention routine to the statement following the one that ended in error or the one that was interrupted by an attention.
Provide a return code from a subprocedure. Control will pass to the statement following the SYSCALL statement that called the subprocedure. The return code is stored in the control variable &LASTCC (Note, however, that return codes from CLIST subprocedures do not cause an error routine to receive control.)

RETURN is valid only when issued from a subprocedure, an activated error routine, or an activated attention routine. If issued from any other place, RETURN is treated as a no-operation.


>>-+--------+--RETURN--+------------------------+--------------><
   '-label:-'          '-CODE(-+------------+-)-'   
                               '-expression-'

label: A name the CLIST can reference in a GOTO statement to branch to this RETURN statement. label is one-to-31 alphanumeric characters, beginning with an alphabetic character.
CODE: Subprocedures can issue a return code. Control will pass to the statement following the SYSCALL statement that called the subprocedure.
expression: A CLIST-defined return code. expression can be a character string, a decimal integer, or an expression that evaluates to a decimal integer. The expression is stored in the control variable &LASTCC. If CODE appears without an expression, &LASTCC takes a null value.