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Jul 20, 2020 at 07:23
Golang's "named return" is a pretty wild feature I haven't seen elsewhere. (The closest I know is &aux in Common Lisp.) Implicit `return` example: https://tour.golang.org/basics/7 or even modifying results before returning:
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