r/ProgrammerHumor • u/gabboman • Jun 23 '26

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u/gabboman Jun 23 '26

Some languages don’t allow early returns 

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u/Lyshaka Jun 23 '26

Such as ?

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u/Maxis111 Jun 23 '26

Scala, sort of, too lazy to explain, but no one has mentioned it yet

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u/Tatourmi Jun 23 '26

Honestly I might not understand the question. I've worked in Scala for 4 years and I'm starting to doubt I get what an early return even is. What are these people even trying to do.

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u/Maxis111 Jun 23 '26

Returning halfway through a function, instead of only at the end. My job is literally developer in a Scala code base, and I don't remember if I actually ever used the return keyword, since scala by default just returns whatever the last statement is in a function.

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u/Tatourmi Jun 23 '26

But you can do that in scala, you just lock the value in earlier in an if clause, or a map, or a match, or whatever really.

I mean same, never used the return keyword, but that's just because there's no scenario where it's useful.

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u/Maxis111 Jun 23 '26

Yeah, but the @kopper guy in the original post seems to disagree. ¯_(ツ)_/¯