[famousactress]

Yeah, is there precedent for that? It looks fucking nutty. Can you do it in the middle of the function!? So odd. There's a lot of cruft in java, but I'm not sure the return statement is even on the list of things I'd bother attacking.

[MichaelGG]

Functions in mathematics sets a good precedent for lack of a return keyword.

Where did you see that it says you can do it in the middle of a function? I understood it implicitly returns the last expression.

[aidenn0]

As far as a precedent, lisp does it that way, and it may be older than the existence of the return statement. Any language that lacks statements usually does it this way.

[rayiner]

Lisp, Dylan, Smalltalk, ML, Haskell, CoffeeScript, and Dart all have various levels of implicit return. It makes sense in a language where there are no statements, just expressions.

Generally code is written to not need to return from the middle of a function. This is only really inconvenient in loops, and at least Dylan, Lisp, and Smalltalk make some provision for an "early return."

[Roybatty]

Someone said Dylan so I just respond...my favorite language of all times :)