Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/23/15 10:49 AM, ixid wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 13:33:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 21:04:57 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
>>> :) The example was written to save space. I recon you understand what
>>> I mean.
>>
>> Yeah, but the if/else is one of the most useful examples of it, and is
>> covered by ?:, so the whole thing becomes less compelling then.
>>
>> The other places where I've used it in languages that support it are
>> little blocks crammed into a line and sometimes exception grabbing...
>> but still, the value isn't that great.
>
> If we had a clean sheet wouldn't it be better to have if return a value
> and ditch ternary?

Possibly, but then you'd need to have while return a value. -- Andrei