DIP 1016 should use expression lowering, not statement lowering
Adam D. Ruppe
destructionator at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 15:57:56 UTC 2019
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 at 15:48:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> On 1/29/19 10:44 AM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>> if (auto val = expr(); val) { ... },
>
> Since we don't have these constructs, lowering would need to
> explain what happens here.
Nitpick, but D has something very similar to that:
if(auto val = expr()) { ... }
it just depends on val implicitly casting to bool.
> It's okay if the resulting code is ugly, it won't be
> user-visible.
We do have to be careful about this - error messages sometimes
leak that ugly code out.
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