Why is creating of if Expressions not allowed?
Rémy Mouëza
remy.moueza at gmail.com
Sun Mar 24 16:57:25 UTC 2019
On Sunday, 24 March 2019 at 16:18:49 UTC, sighoya wrote:
> Why
>
> auto GenIf()()
> {
> return mixin("if(true) { return true;} else {return
> false;}");
> }
>
> public bool testFunction2()
> {
> GenIf!();
> }
>
>
> gives me:
>
> onlineapp.d-mixin-3(3): Error: expression expected, not if
> onlineapp.d(8): Error: template instance `onlineapp.GenIf!()`
> error instantiating
Because D uses if statements, no if expressions.
The equivalent of an if expression is the ternary operator:
bool-condition ? if-true : if-false;
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