Re: "return" to break out of a loop

[moritz]

IMHO there's nothing wrong with it.

Some languages (like Eiffel) disallow such a construct to make it easier to prove the correctness, and to get a better idea about the flow of the program (which is in this case: it runs through the method until it hits the end of that method).

But I found return and last useful at times, and wouldn't want to miss it.

[phaylon]

For this to _really_ be nice, stuff like if would have to return the last value of the executed block:

sub is_even { if (shift % 2) { 0 } else { 1 } }

We already have the ternary operator, but I find it can get hard to maintain when used often in one statement. Sparkling some do { .. }'s in only makes it a bit better.