On 04/09/2016 2:42 AM, Cauterite wrote:
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
I may dislike not using return but please consider at the very least
using ; instead of , for the last element do(x, y ; z). Just something
to hint that the last one is special.
Truth be told I don't want to be spending time figuring out syntax at
e.g. 3am which is not core to D or c like languages.
