Rant after trying Rust a bit

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 20:43:04 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
> When "everything" is an expressions, you can write things like
>     auto a = if(e) c else d;
>
> In D you have to write
>     type a = invalid_value;
>     if(e) a = c;
>     else  a = d;
>     assert(a != invalid_value);
>


I prefer this example from one of the various Rust tutorials

let foo = if x == 5 {
                 "five"
           }
           else if x == 6 {
                 "six"
           }
           else {
                 "neither"
           }

You're basically using a conditional expression as an rvalue. You 
can do the same thing with a { } block.