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Posted by Christian Espinal
Christian Espinal
1,683 Points

How does the return statement know where to jump back to in the flow of the program? i.e. bread-crumb of some sort

Is this action handled similarly to exceptions and the call stack?

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

The short answer is that it is the call stack. This is a bit of an oversimplification, but when you call a function, the computer hangs onto where it is in the function that's currently being run, and says "ok, I'm gonna do this work, and when I'm done, I'm gonna jump back here"