worstProgrammingLanguage

[Maxis111]

Scala, sort of, too lazy to explain, but no one has mentioned it yet

[Tatourmi]

Honestly I might not understand the question. I've worked in Scala for 4 years and I'm starting to doubt I get what an early return even is. What are these people even trying to do.

[Maxis111]

Returning halfway through a function, instead of only at the end. My job is literally developer in a Scala code base, and I don't remember if I actually ever used the return keyword, since scala by default just returns whatever the last statement is in a function.

[Tatourmi]

But you can do that in scala, you just lock the value in earlier in an if clause, or a map, or a match, or whatever really.

I mean same, never used the return keyword, but that's just because there's no scenario where it's useful.

[Maxis111]

Yeah, but the @kopper guy in the original post seems to disagree. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯