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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:

> I would look forward to your explanation of how that makes any sense
> at all (preferably, as Richard suggests, in a different thread)
> if I thought there was a reasonable chance of that happening.

Well if thought "structured" meant "SESE in all circumstances", and your 
program had at least one failure mode and one success mode you'd store 
your return value in a variable and return it in the sole return-statement.