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Someoneyesterday at 11:22 AM0 repliesview on HN

It breaks the idea that statements get executed in the order they appear in the source code, but it ‘only’ moves and sometimes deduplicates (in functions with multiple exit points) statements, it doesn’t hide them.

Of course, that idea already isn’t correct in many languages; function arguments are evaluated before a function is called, operator precedence often breaks it, etc, but this moves entire statements, potentially by many lines.