"exit" keyword to exit a template without marking it as "fail"?

[lathspell]

Imagine a script that queries the current firmware version and then decides if a patch has to be installed or not. It would be handy if a template could "graceful" exist if the patch is already detected on that host. Using "fail" marks this host as having had a problem. Using "if" to skip the rest of the script works but looks ugly. Would a "return"/"exit" keyword make sense?

[knipknap]

I agree that would be useful. One way to implement it quickly might be to introduce a new exception type in the template processor (ExitException or something), and catch that to handle it gracefully. Otherwise the template's functions / scopes need to gain awareness of the running state of the program, which is probably a bigger change.