Do you think if statement as expression would be nice to have in D?

[Nick Treleaven]

On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 16:24:10 UTC, user1234 wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 16:15:26 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
>> On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 11:35:41 UTC, user1234 wrote:
>>> ```
>>> const char = if (current < input.len)
>>>             input[current]
>>>         else
>>>             break;
>>> ```
>>>
>>> - So the `break` expression has a type ? And this type is 
>>> compatible with the typê of `input[current]` ? wut ?
>>
>> Just like `throw` is an expression in D now. It's type is 
>> noreturn, which implicitly converts to any type.
>
> I think this does not give intuitively what char value will be: 
> undefined, 0 ?
> Well in this case a loop is exited and char is out of scope so 
> that does not matter but what if char is a var owned by the 
> loop outer scope.

In that case, no assignment would occur. Control flow was 
interrupted before the assignment.