Re: Rant after trying Rust a bit

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 20:43:04 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
When "everything" is an expressions, you can write things like
    auto a = if(e) c else d;
In D you have to write
    type a = invalid_value;
    if(e) a = c;
    else  a = d;
    assert(a != invalid_value);



I prefer this example from one of the various Rust tutorials

let foo = if x == 5 {
                "five"
          }
          else if x == 6 {
                "six"
          }
          else {
                "neither"
          }

You're basically using a conditional expression as an rvalue. You 
can do the same thing with a { } block.