Rant after trying Rust a bit

[ixid via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 20:09:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/23/2015 7:49 AM, ixid wrote:
>> If we had a clean sheet wouldn't it be better to have if 
>> return a value and
>> ditch ternary?
>
> Then we'd start seeing code like:
>
>     x = 45 + if (y == 10) { while (i--) z += call(i); z; } else 
> { switch (x) { case 6: foo(); y; } + tan(z);
>
> I.e. the embedding of arbitrary statements within expressions. 
> We already have some of this with embedded anonymous lambda 
> support, and I've discovered one needs to be very careful in 
> formatting it to not wind up with an awful unreadable mess.
>
> So I'd be really reluctant to continue down that path.

As opposed to:

	auto n = {
		if (y == 10) {
			return {
				while (i--)
					z += call(i);
				return z;
			}();
		} else {
			return {
				switch (x) {
					case 6: return foo();
					default: return y;
				}
			}();
		}
	}() + tan(z);

You can already do that, it's even uglier.