Comment by S1ngleM4lt

As someone who had recently started going the other direction, from C and C-based languages to those more influenced by lisp, it took a bit of getting used to but I’ve grown to appreciate the expressiveness and composability. The only thing I can think of that statements allow, but as I understand it pure expressions don’t, would be early returns. The closest replacement I’ve seen is to just make “return” raise an exception and wrap the whole expression with the try/catch equivalent, which isn’t terrible but was a bit surprising coming from a C-based background where returning early is a fairly common pattern.