Rant after trying Rust a bit

[shannon mackey via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 15:37:24 UTC, shannon mackey wrote:
> "> On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 19:41:16 UTC, Jack Stouffer 
> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 20:43:04 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 18:47:33 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Don't quite know what you mean here.
>>
>> 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 frequently do things like this in D:
>
>         auto good = ( true == true ) ? "true" : "false";
>
> which looks a lot like your Rust example?  Is that not what you 
> were looking for?

Sorry, I didn't read to the end of the thread, and this has been 
covered many times.