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Re:Introducing Verve: minimalistic, static, functional language by nerdponx on Friday July 08, 2016 @08:07PM (#12059423)
Why no explicit returns? I'm used to them from R, but I thought that was considered a quirk, not a feature.
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Re:Introducing Verve: minimalistic, static, functional language by tadeuzagallo on Friday July 08, 2016 @08:10PM (#12059430)
It makes it easier to reason about a functions result, both when reading the code and when type checking.
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Re:Introducing Verve: minimalistic, static, functional language by okonomiyaki3000 on Saturday July 09, 2016 @04:09AM (#12060637)
Yeah, it strikes me as a bad idea. I mean, auto-returning the last statement is one thing but not allowing explicit returns means you can't use guard clauses.
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