Rant after trying Rust a bit

[simendsjo via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 20:59:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 20:43:04 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
>> When "everything" is an expressions, you can write things like
>>     auto a = if(e) c else d;
>>
>> In D you have to write
>>     type a = invalid_value;
>>     if(e) a = c;
>>     else  a = d;
>>     assert(a != invalid_value);
>
>
> That's what the ternary expression is for:
>
> auto a = e ? c : d;
>
>
> Though the ternary is unnecessary with statements as 
> expressions, common cases like this are handled.

:) The example was written to save space. I recon you understand 
what I mean.