If Statement with Declaration

Adrian Matoga via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Nov 4 11:05:51 PDT 2016


On Friday, 4 November 2016 at 15:34:00 UTC, Jerry wrote:
> On Friday, 4 November 2016 at 14:16:44 UTC, Matthias Bentrup 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 3 November 2016 at 22:29:34 UTC, Jerry wrote:
>>>     if(int i = someFunc(); i >= 0)
>>>     {
>>>         // use i
>>>     }
>>> Thoughts on this sort of feature?
>>
>> I would prefer the syntax
>>
>>   if( (int i = someFunc()) >= 0 )
>>   {
>>     // use i
>>   }
>>
>> as this matches the already existing assignment expression 
>> syntax if you pull the declaration out of the if expression.
>
> Well you can argue the "if( init ; condition )" syntax matches 
> "for( init ; condition ; update)", minus the "update" section.

You've just answered your own question:
     for (int i = someFunc(); i >= 0; )
     {
         // use i
         break;
     }



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