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`exit` Statement

Normally a Glish program ends when the last statement of the main program has been executed and all tasks have terminated, as discussed in § 13.1.2, page . To prematurely end the program, you use exit. As you can see, it has a syntax similar to that of return:

exit

exit expression

The first statement exits the program with a status of 0. The second statement evaluates expression and converts it to an integer scalar (by ignoring all but the first element), which is then used as the exit status.

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exit Statement

`exit` Statement