I think the problem was expr1, not expr2: you probably didn't make expr1 return a Bool. (Julia deliberately does not support "if cond" unless cond is a Bool.)
Demo of correct usage: julia> x = 5 5 julia> x == 4 && "hello" false julia> x == 5 && "world" "world" Best, --Tim On Friday, May 06, 2016 12:12:28 PM Adrian Salceanu wrote: > The only place where I find the "end" requirement annoying is for one line > IF statements. When you have a short one liner, the "end" part just does > not feel right. It would be nice if the "end" could be left out for one > liners. Even PHP allows one to skip the accolades in such cases. > > If there's some other way of achieving this I'd love to hear about it. I > don't like the ternary operator in this situation cause it forces me to add > the 3rd part as "nothing" or whatever. And doing "expr1 && expr2" only > works when expr2 is "return" for instance, otherwise the compiler complains > about using a non-boolean in a boolean context. > > vineri, 6 mai 2016, 20:37:49 UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski a scris: > > There is a long history of languages using this syntax, including Algol, > > Pascal, Ruby and Matlab. > > > > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Ford Ox <[email protected] <javascript:>> > > > > wrote: > >> Is there any reasoning behind it? It seems to me like a weird choice > >> since you have to type three letters, which is the complete opposite of > >> the > >> goal of this language - being very productive (a lot work done with > >> little > >> code). > >> On top of that, brain has to read the word every time your eyes look at > >> it so you spend more time also reading the code - tho this should be easy > >> to omit, by highlighting this keyword by other color than other keywords > >> (the current purple color in ATOM just drives me crazy, since it is one > >> of > >> the most violent colors, so my eyes always try to read that useless piece > >> of information first, instead of the important code).
