On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:53:40 -0500, Chris Huff wrote:
>Maybe the return value should be the first expression not 
>preceded by an expression which is using it, and not followed by =, +=, 
>-=, --, or ++. So if the parser encounters an equation is just sitting 
>there alone, not being used as input to if(), while(), or anything, or a 
>variable which is not being modified, it would be used as the return 
>value.

Perl uses the value of the last evaluated expression as the return value.
Could that work?

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