On 10/5/18 8:39 AM, Larry Wall wrote:
On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 03:13:15PM -0400, Trey Harris wrote: : Right; that's what I meant by "stylistically" — a `--> Mu` can highlight : that something is being returned (and that side-effects are not the primary : purpose), while nothing indicates that the return value, though it exists, : is incidental and probably from "falling off the end" or using `return` as : a control-flow jump. If nothing is being returned, it should really be indicated with --> Nil since that can enable certain optimizations. Similarly, if a routine always returns true upon success, that can be indicated with --> True. Larry
Am I interpreting Larry correctly? Should every definition line always have a --> at the end?
