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		aldanor on April 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Raku vs. Perl In Python, it's even worse, since there's no braces and not returning anything implicitly returns None.

deckiedan on April 19, 2020 | [–]

I always take this as Python's way of strongly discouraging deeply nested and overly long functions... ( I realise this might be Stockholm syndrome...)

empthought on April 18, 2020 | | [–]

Mypy fixes the second problem, at least.

rmtech on April 18, 2020 | [–]

Python at least has if ... elif ... else to deal with it.

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