Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2015-07-23 17:41, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> Maybe, but the ternary operator is a lot less verbose, and from some
> other comments in this thread, it sounds like the way they implemented
> it in Rust forces you to use braces for single line statements, which
> would be a _huge_ downside IMHO.

Scala implements it without those requirements. I looks exactly like in 
D, just that it also returns a value.

Also, I think it's getting a lot more interesting when you combine it 
with automatically return in a method and optional braces for methods 
with a single expression:

def returnType = if (node.isConstructor)
   None
else
   Some(Type.translate(binding.getReturnType))

Or if you're using pattern matching:

def fromModifier(value: Modifier) = value match {
   case Modifier.ABSTRACT => ABSTRACT
   case Modifier.STATIC => STATIC
   case Modifier.FINAL => FINAL
   case _ => NONE
}

BTW, Ruby supports both the ternary operator and statements are expressions.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg