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

[zjh]

On Wednesday, 8 June 2022 at 00:07:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/7/2022 2:16 PM, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>> - The usage of D_SIMD and core.simd is not yet enabled in 
>> intel-intrinsics with DMD because it disrupts Core and PR, so 
>> until now I've been doing it in several attempts to test the 
>> water and not distract too much people. But it will enabled be 
>> next time probably, probably in August.
>> 
>> - Once core.simd is enabled for good, D_SIMD usage can be 
>> ramped up intel-intrinsics (currently, it is only SSE 1 
>> instructions that use the D_SIMD _builtins_).
>>    I expect doing it for all other SIMD instructions will take 
>> a few months of spare work, and will expose about 4-5 new bugs 
>> and that will be it. If DMD test suite follows it should be 
>> hopefully set in stone. wishful.gif
>> 
>>    Until now, most of the issues came from regular vector 
>> types usage, not really D_SIMD builtins so I expect that last 
>> part to be less contentious.
>> 
>> I'm curious how close we can get to optimized LDC codegen with 
>> DMD codegen in an entirely SIMD codebase, it will be somewhere 
>> between 0.5x and 1.0x. In small godbolt examples it can get 
>> pretty close.
>
> I'm looking forward to the progress you're making!
>
> As an aside, I am thinking about making D's array operations 
> work more like APL does:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
>
> APL seems a good fit for SIMD. Look, Ma, no loops!


`...` also has no loops.