How to quit/exit from file included in the terminal

Question

What can I do within a file "example.jl" to exit/return from a call to include() in the command line

julia> include("example.jl")

without existing julia itself. quit() will just terminate julia itself.

Edit: For me this would be useful while interactively developing code, for example to include a test file and return from the execution to the julia prompt when a certain condition is met or do only compile the tests I am currently working on without reorganizing the code to much.

Answer 1

I'm not quite sure what you're looking to do, but it sounds like you might be better off writing your code as a function, and use a return to exit. You could even call the function in the include.

Answer 2

Kristoffer will not love it, but

stop(text="Stop.") = throw(StopException(text))

struct StopException{T}
    S::T
end

function Base.showerror(io::IO, ex::StopException, bt; backtrace=true)
    Base.with_output_color(get(io, :color, false) ? :green : :nothing, io) do io
        showerror(io, ex.S)
    end
end

will give a nice, less alarming message than just throwing an error.

julia> stop("Stopped. Reason: Converged.")
ERROR: "Stopped. Reason: Converged."

Source: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-julia-equivalent-to-rs-stop/36568/12