super return

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Sebastian Malton <sebastian at malton.name> wrote:
> This could be done but I see a few problems with it:
>
> 1. Though it does make ending from some functions like forEach able to be done it does not all returning from other functions like map or sort

map() and forEach() have exactly the same signatures for their
callbacks; you can definitely do the same thing in both of them.

You're right about sort(), but returning early from a sort() call
seems like a really small niche; I think it's the sort of thing you'll
only do in an error situation, in which case throwing is the correct
way to handle it.  (On the other hand, returning early from a
forEach() can be due to perfectly normal reasons, the same sorts of
things that cause you to `break` from a loop.)

> 2. It does not directly allow the returning of values but this might be rectified by having it be a function that you call and when it calls it stops any further calls and then returns the first parameter past

It's the outer function's responsibility to return appropriate values.
A map() call that didn't return an array would cause a lot of
problems; a forEach call that returned something meaningful would be
weird. In either case, it's a bad code smell to try and override what
the outer function is doing.  If you're stopping because of an error,
and so whatever the function is trying to do isn't relevant anymore,
you should throw an error instead.

~TJ