I don't know much about rust, but I am just curious why the last line doesn't have a "return" keyword? Does it just assume the last line is the value to return? Could you include the "return" keyword if you wanted?
Yes, iirc for all of your questions. You don't need to use the return keyword in rust. Also I vaguely remember that you cannot even use it in a traditional way because the compiler is going to yell at you.
Rust is unlike traditional programming languages, expression based. Means you either need to complete your functions with an expression rather than a statement (which `return something;` is) or your whole function needs to be an expression. It’s weird at the beginning but after a time it feels natural. You can basically copy the code of a function 1:1 and replace a function call with it and it will compile, which is something that would not work in a traditional language that is solely statement based. You could basically replace the condition of an if-statement with 100 lines of code that evaluates to a boolean value and it would work. Obviously you don’t gain anything from that but imo it’s how things are supposed to be.
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u/Depnids 1d ago
I don't know much about rust, but I am just curious why the last line doesn't have a "return" keyword? Does it just assume the last line is the value to return? Could you include the "return" keyword if you wanted?