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Modify modifier behaviour: "return" should be similar to "break" #686

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chriseth opened this issue Jun 25, 2016 · 2 comments
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Modify modifier behaviour: "return" should be similar to "break" #686

chriseth opened this issue Jun 25, 2016 · 2 comments

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@chriseth
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Currently, a return inside a function body (or more deeply nested modifier) ignores the trailing statements in a modifier with the justification that modifiers are pure syntactic modifications.

This leads to the effect that trailing statements are practically useless because they fact whether they are executed or not depends on whether the control flow exited the function via a return or just via flowing past the end of the function body.

Because of that and to allow "cleanup operations", if the control flow leaves a function or more deeply nested modifier, it should always continue right after the _.

I am currently not aware of any real-world usage of modifiers that would get broken by this change. Please speak up if you think otherwise. :-)

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nmushegian commented Jun 26, 2016

related (dupe?) #49

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chriseth commented Jul 5, 2016

@nmushegian related, but not a duplicate

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