DIP1001: DoExpression
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Sat Sep 3 07:42:34 PDT 2016
On Saturday, 3 September 2016 at 14:25:49 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
> I propose a slight change:
> do(x, y, return z)
Hmm, I suppose I should mention one other motivation behind this
DIP:
I really like to avoid using the 'return' keyword inside
expressions, because I find it visually confusing - hear me out
here -
When you're reading a function and trying to understand its
control flow, one of the main elements you're searching for is
all the places the function can return from.
If the code has a lot of anonymous functions with return
statements this can really slow down the process as you have to
more carefully inspect every return to see if it's a 'real'
return or inside an anonymous function.
Also, in case it wasn't obvious, the do() syntax was inspired by
Clojure:
http://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.core/do
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