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Ruby is an "everything is an expression" language and it has return, and idiomatically it's used identically to Rust: for early returns. It is of course not st

• saurik 1y ago
  Ruby is complex as it does the thing I said: 1) return is bottom, and so you can't have return "statement"--most people call it a statement even though it is a "void value expression"... but, like, once the type of an expression becomes sufficiently encoded in the syntax, how is it not a statement?--in a context where an expression would go; and 2) it isn't even the same thing as what Rust is doing, as it is a non-local construct that is effectively throwing an internal form of exception, allowing you to "return" from a function far up the call stack, and so it's rules are a bit more regular and useful: Ruby is coming at the notion of almost everything is an expression so as to allow expressions that look like statements, and that's a very different motivation than the syntax we are seeing here in Rust.