Yeah - I was going to add a SUGGESTION to the SUGGESTION forum and ask Ruud to create a new SETOPTION for Kixtart - the option would be called:

$= SETOPTION("ExplicitOutput","ON")

or something like that ... can't really think of a good name for it because this un-caught return value thingy is kinda unique to Kixtart.

Anyways, what this option would do would be to discard any output that was not EXPLICITY sent to the console ... but as I was thinking through the idea ... realized that it would probably be almost impossible for Ruud to implement ... just a thought though.