[Python-Dev] [OT] implicit return values (original) (raw)

Xavier Morel catch-all at masklinn.net
Wed Sep 2 11:46:31 CEST 2009

On 2 Sep 2009, at 00:10 , Greg Ewing wrote: Le mardi 01 septembre 2009 à 15:09 +0200, Xavier Morel a écrit :

"We" are not Erlang, Smalltalk, OCaml or Haskell either, sadly. IIRC, the default return value of a Smalltalk method is self, not the last thing evaluated. Methods yes (and that's one of the few Smalltalk design "features" I
consider truly dumb, considering it has message cascading), but I was
referring to blocks rather than methods and the return value of blocks
is the last evaluated expression.

(And no, that's not going to happen in Python either -- the BDFL has rejected similar suggestions on previous occasions.) I know.

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