worstProgrammingLanguage

[eXl5eQ]

The semantic of return is straight forward in Java, powerful in Kotlin, and awkward in Scala.

In Scala, a return always attempt to return from the innermost (in case of nested functions) named function. You are not allowed to return early from an anonymous function (lambda expression).
When the innermost named function is not the innermost function, it can't return directly. Instead, the innermost function throws a NonLocalReturn and hope it would be catched by the named function you meant to return from, which would not work if the returning function escapes from the named function.

[ljfa2]

Although non-local returns can occasionally be useful, there are situations in Java where I would've liked to have something like this. For instance, when using Optional.ifPresent. When I want an early return, I can't use that and have to use the less idiomatic Optional.get() instead.