Early return might not be language specific, but they are paradigm specific.
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While returning early can make sense in a statement-oriented language, they aren't nearly as popular in expression-oriented languages.
In at least one (Scala), an explicit return of any kind, but especially an early return, is explicitly an anti-pattern.
Of course, most of these languages have pattern matching, which is a great alternate to both switch and complex if...else blocks.
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returnmight not be language specific, but they are paradigm specific.While returning early can make sense in a statement-oriented language, they aren't nearly as popular in expression-oriented languages.
In at least one (Scala), an explicit
returnof any kind, but especially an earlyreturn, is explicitly an anti-pattern.Of course, most of these languages have pattern matching, which is a great alternate to both
switchand complexif...elseblocks.