There is literally only one language I've seen that has anything like this, and it's Verilog, a hardware description language. (It's also of questionable utility, and it's restricted to just simulator-only constructs.) That's not an endorsement, more like the opposite of one.
----- Isiah Meadows [email protected] www.isiahmeadows.com On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 2:29 PM Peter Jaszkowiak <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wow that's fanatically disgusting. Please no. > > On Mon, Sep 3, 2018, 12:27 Bob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> To continue the "stupid idea of the day" series, I have often felt the need >> to indicate a return value other than as part of a `return` statement. >> >> Perhaps this is my BASIC background--the dialect I used all those years ago >> allowed an assignment to the function name to pre-specify a return value, >> which would then be used whenever the function finally finished. >> >> My initial suggestion is to use the `return =` syntax, which is a syntax >> error right now so it should not conflict with anything. >> >> Trivial examples: >> >> ```js >> function double(a) { >> const b = return = []; >> for (elt of a) b.push(elt*2); >> } >> ``` >> >> ```js >> function bar() { >> const val = someCalculation(); >> report(return = val); >> } >> ``` >> >> Not to belabor the point, but of course there is no new functionality here; >> it's just a matter of conciseness. However, it could also perhaps be used to >> allow the use of arrow functions when you want to do something without >> returning its value but maintain the concise body form: >> >> ```js >> const a = () => doThing(return = a); >> ``` >> >> Bob >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
