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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by fancy_hammer on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:46AM (#28522750)
Elixir possibly has some of this flavour. If and switch are both expressions and return values. I dig it.
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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by kaba0 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:55AM (#28535726)
I think it is that way in almost every FP language (eg. Scala, Haskell, Kotlin, etc)
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