I would very much appreciate this. I've been doing a chunk of work in Rust
lately and it has the philosophy of "everything is an expression". It leads
to things like this
def val = if (something) { "hello" } else { "other stuff" }
being very normal, which helps with a fair few constructs. Specifically in
rust it helps you manage safety blocks, which isn't an issue in Groovy per
se, but I can see that mapping over into DSLs pretty well.
My humble opinion would be that if you were to do it, then I would much
rather it be done "properly", is, having the if/ switch become expression
constructs rather than simple statements.
David.
On 27 September 2017 at 08:25, Jochen Theodorou <blackd...@gmx.org> wrote:
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>
> Am 27.09.2017 um 05:37 schrieb Daniel Sun:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been thinking about support some syntax like `def x = if
>> (...)
>> { ... } else if (...) { ... } else { ... }`, which will be translated to
>> `def x = { if (...) { ... } else if (...) { ... } else { ... } }()`
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>
> I wonder...
>
> def x = booleanCondition.
>> iftrue {1}.
>> elseif (anotherCondidition).
>> iftrue {2}.
>> elseif (yetAnotherCondition).
>> iffalse {3}
>>
>
> would something like this be better ?
>
> bye Jochen
>
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>
