Re: "if" statement

[Benjamin Schaaf via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 24 March 2019 at 12:45:13 UTC, Francesco Mecca wrote:
https://run.dlang.io/is/zRcj59
```
alias Alg = Algebraic!(int, string);

void main()
{
        int n = 2;
    Alg value;

    value = n == 2 ? 2 : "string";
}
```

The original code used SumType but the effect is the same.

I suppose that I could write the following:

```
    if(n == 2) value = 2;
    else value = "string";
```

Is there a workaround for this that maintains a similar 
syntactic structure?
is this behaviour accepted or should the compiler translate the 
first case in the second?

You can achieve the same thing by just constructing your 
algebraic type earlier:

  value = n == 2 ? Alg(2) : Alg("string");