teal-language/tl

Cannot use semicolon after return statement

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#976 opened on May 13, 2025

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Description

This is not a major bug, but rather a non-intuitive situation.

local function test()
    return;
end             -- return must be the last statement of its block

Some folks coming from the C world complained about this.

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Research direction
Investigate how the Teal parser handles return statements with semicolons and identify why semicolons are not allowed after return.
Tech stack
lua
Domain
compilers
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Bug
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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Lua
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65