>Still, the workaround I'm really looking for is one that fixes the undocumented RETURN TO ... result value. I don't know that any such solution exists - I tried a few guesses and decided to give up after none of them bore fruit. For example, I tried using a PRIVATE or a PUBLIC variable instead of a LOCAL one - no difference. Perhaps someone will someday come along with a brilliant kludge that does the trick. In the meantime, I'll keep an eye out for cases where this issue comes up, and use the sort of extra checking I described.

I think it's really unlikely that you're find a way to get a reliable return value from RETURN TO. There's no question that the two ways of using RETURN were designed to be mutually exclusive.

Tamar