On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 5:00 AM Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 22:16 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
> <perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2020-01-20 20:09, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
>> > On 2020-01-20 19:55, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
>
> ...
>>
>> > I think this is it:
>> >
>> > > sub x() returns Associative { my %h= A=>"a"; return %h}
>> > &x
>> > > x
>> > {A => a}
>> ...
>> Yup, too high up the food chain:
>>
>> > sub x() returns Hash { my %h= A=>"a"; return %h}
>
>
> The preferred syntax is:
>
> sub x(--> Hash) {...}
>
> See that in the docs.
>
> Larry Wall once warned that the "return..." syntax may be removed at some
> point.
>
> -Tom
>
"return..." is a common idiom in many programming languages, and
keeping it around might help programmers ease their transition to
raku/perl6. So I'd hate to see "return" go away--at least for the
foreseeable future.
--Bill.
