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I also learnt the hard way that answering a message differs from returning from a closure. And I was using Smalltalk, whose designers chose distinct syntax for those actions, a good idea that was apparently broken when Smalltalk became Ruby. "Return" should mean the same thing in different places; scepticism about how tools behave has to stop somewhere.


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