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The "killer feature" of Snap is the ability to define functions that return a value. In Scratch, you can't do that.

Functions ("custom blocks") are just procedures that may-or-may-not mutate global state - This makes it hard to build up abstractions, etc.

Scratch effectively mandates that you write spaghetti code.

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> The "killer feature" of Snap is the ability to define functions that return a value. In Scratch, you can't do that.

Ah, I see now.

Yeah, Scratch really should let you make custom "oval blocks" that return values...

My vague recollection is there was alot more advantages too.

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> The "killer feature" of Snap is the ability to define functions that return a value. In Scratch, you can't do that.

Ah, I see now.

Yeah, Scratch really should let you make custom "oval blocks" that return values...

My vague recollection is there was alot more advantages too.

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