Re: assign to magic name-of-function variable instead of "return"

[abigail]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:46:48AM -0500, James Mastros wrote:
> 
> In most languages, you do this with
> {
>  $ret = 42;
>  close FILE;
>  unlock $stuff;
>  #yadda
>  return $ret;
> }
> 
> By the time you get to the last line, you've already forgoten WTF you named
> the return variable.

Eh, I don't think that bad memory, or a bad variable naming scheme
justifies this new feature.

If you forget how you name your variables you have much bigger problems
than to have to type 'return'.



Abigail