How to exit a program?

Hi!
I'm using CC1.5. Maybe (probably) I'm just glossing over something… Or it's a programming trick I don't know… How do I terminate a program from inside a program? For example if I press the Q key (os.pullEvent()) the program stops running and then the CraftOS1.5 comes back. How do I do that with a plain grey computer?

Thank you for your answer!

Well, if you aren't in a function, you can call "return". Personally I just call "error()", which works anywhere.

Bomb Bloke, on 16 June 2015 - 03:00 AM said:

Well, if you aren't in a function, you can call "return". Personally I just call "error()", which works anywhere.

I would not recommend using error for that purpose. It's just the behaviour of the shell that makes it look, as if the program terminated in successful manner, which it effectively isn't.

@easter:
The program should just terminate by reaching the end or returning early. In this manner, your programs is exactly like a function. You retrieve arguments via "…" and can return in any point of your program. Note, that you cannot return directly when inside a nested function.

In your example, the most basic solution would be to "break" out of your event loop:

while(true) do
  e, a, b, c = os.pullEvent()
  if(e == "char" and a == "q") then
    break --# this will effectively jump to ....
  end
  ...
end
--# this point ;)/>
...

Thank you the answers! It was just too late and I was too impatient to think about return() and break().
Thanks again!

eastar, on 17 June 2015 - 03:37 PM said:

Thank you the answers! It was just too late and I was too impatient to think about return() and break().
Thanks again!

They aren't functions, so don't put parentheses behind them, that would just error out.