Ok, we use FastCGI, so when calls are made the output neds to go to stardard out. The way most of our stuff works is we have a take_call subroutine which sorts out the call and then calls the appropriate subroutine, which prints out it's own data. I have come to want a way to print something and return in the same call, but am not sure if this is possible. for example 
if($foo) {
   print "1\nError was $foo\n";
   return;
}
#would become
preturn "1\nError was $foo\n" if $foo;

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and that would print the message to standard out and return.

I have thought about having take_call print the return value if any... but that would be... difficult at this point.

I am guessing there probably is no way to do this, or if there is, it is a nasty hack, but you never know unless you ask :)

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In reply to print and return... by suaveant

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