Raise I might argue in favor of (though I find it annoying too) solely because it's a language feature to change where you return to. It's not a thing you can

Raise I might argue in favor of (though I find it annoying too) solely because it's a language feature to change where you return to. It's not a thing you can express via other code. (though a callback-only language sounds kinda interesting / terrifying) Print statements are horrific though, totally agreed. It's just normal IO with a common default, but making it as a statement causes problems, e.g. `lambda: print 'yay'` isn't allowed.