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nerdponx
on July 9, 2016
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Introducing Verve: minimalistic, static, functiona...
Why no explicit returns? I'm used to them from R, but I thought that was considered a quirk, not a feature.
tadeuzagallo
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It makes it easier to reason about a functions result, both when reading the code and when type checking.
okonomiyaki3000
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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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