There's been a discussion of allowing suffix if like in Ruby. Not enough people like it for it to have any traction.
-- John On Mar 19, 2014, at 8:33 AM, Cristóvão Duarte Sousa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes I see myself writing one line if-elses like `if x<0 x=-x end`, > which I think is not very "readable". > > What is your advice for that? > "That is ok", "always put a semicolon after the condition" or "totally avoid > one liners"? > > BTW, have you Julia devs ever considered introducing a "then" keyword which > could optionally be placed after the condition (à la Ruby)? > `if x<0 then x=-x end` seems much more readable. > > (I know the ternary operator, but I'm considering cases where no "else" > action exists.) >
