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

[Timon Gehr]

On 6/8/22 03:30, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> I want to help with this and just today I have fixed a backend issue 
>> but I just wanted to say some things about it.
> 
> That's fine, that's what the forums are for! And it gives me an 
> opportunity to help out.
> 
> The only structural problem with the backend I've discovered is it 
> cannot embed goto nodes in the tree structure, so it can't inline loops. 
> I doubt it is that big a problem, because loops intrinsically are hardly 
> worth inlining.

Inlining a function (even with a loop) can enable further optimizations 
that depend on additional information that's available at the call site.