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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:56:38 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:
>
>> They can lead to people thinking that return is a function ...
>
> There shouldn't be a return statement at all.  Smashing together
> the assignment of the function result with termination of function
> execution seems to me a code smell.

It must be terrible to have such a highly sensitive nose in a world
with so many heathen programming language designers.

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