syntax idea: simplifed ifs

[Bruno Medeiros]

dennis luehring wrote:
> for example how often do we use constructs like
> 
> if( x ==  10 && x == 20 && x == 30 )
> 
> simplified:
> if( x == [10 && 20 && 30] )
> 
> if( a >= h && b >= h && c >= h )
> 
> simplified:
> if( [a && b && c] >= h )
> 
> (just an idea)
> 
> ciao dennis

Dear Gods, no! I'm against adding such a specific rule to the language, 
thus increasing it's complexity, just for IMO a *very small* gain in 
term of syntactic sugar (and change agility).

Like someone said already, if we had array literals we could probably 
have a general solution, like:
   [10, 20, 30].contains(x)
or:
   x in [10, 20, 30]

But even if we can't find a better alternative such as this one, I'm 
still against this specific idea.


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