That's a good point, with the parenthesis it does work as expected in case of an assignment, thanks!
vineri, 6 mai 2016, 22:31:42 UTC+2, Yichao Yu a scris: > > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Adrian Salceanu > <[email protected] <javascript:>> 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. > > It shouldn't. Unless you are using the result in a boolean context. > The only case where this doesn't work is assignment, where `a && b = > c` is parsed as `(a && b) = c` and not `a && (b = c)`. This can be > workaround by adding parenthesis as shown above and maybe we can also > change the parser too? > > > > > > > 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]> 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). > >> > >> > > >
