[julia-users] Re: The "then" keyword

[Steven G. Johnson]

On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:33:57 AM UTC-4, Cristóvão Duarte Sousa 
wrote:
>
> Sometimes I see myself writing one line if-elses like `if x<0 x=-x end`, 
> which I think is not very "readable".
>

Of course, in this particular case you could just do x = abs(x), but a 
typical style for one-line if-then in Julia is to use &&:

    n == 0 && return 0
    n < 0 && throw(BoundsError())

or in this case

     x < 0 && (x = -x)