Return statements inside object constructors

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Design of the Grace language and its libraries

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Return statements inside object constructors #188

Open apblack opened 4 years ago

apblack commented 4 years ago

See https://github.com/gracelang/minigrace/issues/325. This is really a language design issue.

apblack commented 2 years ago

Disallowing returns doesn’t actually solve the problem. In evaluating the initial value of a def or var, an exception could be raised, and the handler could return something arbitrary.