Re:The Year of C++ Successor Languages
by mgaunard on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:33PM
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The prevent the control flow from continuing in that direction, which prevents those variables from ever existing.
Early return is nothing like exceptions. Early returns needs to return something which passes the problem to someone else. It's also a choice to do it at all.
Re:The Year of C++ Successor Languages
by jstimpfle on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @06:34AM
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You're completely missing my point. The point is that both prevent the control flow from continuing in that direction. Both prevent the variables declared later to ever "exist".
Early return is nothing like exceptions. Early returns needs to return something which passes the problem to someone else. It's also a choice to do it at all.