Damn C++ and damn D!

[Michel Fortin]

On 2012-02-05 16:25:33 +0000, Jose Armando Garcia <jsancio at gmail.com> said:

> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> Make it a function.
> 
> I agree that in theory that you can do all this stuff in D but the
> reality is that developers are lazy and end up fighting the language.

Make it a function literal:

immutable variable = {
	if (boolean_condition)
		return 1
	else
		return 2;
}();

The extra () at the end calls the literal immediately so that variable 
is assigned the result.

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