I always disliked implicit returns, and over the years and having dealt with many more codebases, some quite large, I've learned to dislike any implicitness. I

I always disliked implicit returns, and over the years and having dealt with many more codebases, some quite large, I've learned to dislike any implicitness. I would much prefer that you must explicitly return a value (even if it's through an implicitly declared 'Result' variable) rather than just 'try to guess what happened here, in this long function with lots of expressions'. There are a few exceptions, like Forth, where you really have to keep the current state of the stack in mind at all times anyway. Those exceptions naturally tend toward very small functions. Most languages don't, and the result is inevitably difficult to understand bugs.