Rust return Keyword

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Why is using return as the last statement in a function considered bad style?

I was reading through the Rust documentation and came across the following example and statement Using a return as the last line of a function works, but is considered poor style: fn foo(x: i32) ...

Why is using return as the last statement in a function considered bad style?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27961879/why-is-using-return-as-the-last-statement-in-a-function-considered-bad-style

Why is using return as the last statement in a function considered bad style?

Return a value from a function. A return marks the end of an execution path in a function: return is not needed when the returned value is the last expression in the function. In this case the; is omitted: return returns from the function immediately (an "early return"):

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/keyword.return.html

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