> Same with "ret" instead of "return" And if we're going to have something so devoid of obvious meaning as "ret" why not go the whole way down to a single char

> Same with "ret" instead of "return" And if we're going to have something so devoid of obvious meaning as "ret" why not go the whole way down to a single character? Smalltalk which I generally consider to be a verbose language manages quite nicely using "^" to indicate an explicit return- ^answer