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Exactly.

• redbar0n 4y ago
  > My conclusion is that there are major, well-justified reasons for why people strongly dislike functional languages. What are those reasons, in your view?
• darkmarmot 4y ago
  So what advantages to comprehension or usability would you like to offer over Elixir? (as it doesn't really focus on type/category theory like most other FP languages)
  • bslatkin 4y ago
    I'm not an Elixir expert at all, but one important feature I believe is missing: explicit returns.
    • weatherlight 4y ago
      um, what? Pretty common in FP languages to have implicit returns. A function HAS to return something. Ideally, a function is just a mapping between one value and another value. Wouldn't make much sense to have explicit returns. For everything else there are guards, or just a simple if/else block. If everything is an expression (And if you are making an FP lang, almost everything should be.), the last expression will always be returned.