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Causes execution of the current STML document or component to stop entirely. If the templating engine is executing a component or include, it stops executing that component or include and returns execution to the template which did the include or component call. If there is no calling template (you're at the top level template), then the templating engine stops executing any STML, and then returns the response to the user as it currently stands.