"using the result of a comma expression is not allowed"

[bachmeier]

On Sunday, 21 April 2024 at 19:16:03 UTC, Don Allen wrote:

> And this whole discussion brings up the issue, for me, that 
> 'if' and blocks are not expressions that can yield values. Both 
> Rust and Zig support this. The separate and redundant 
> conditional statement and expression in D is a holdover from C. 
> I think this was a mistake in C and a bigger mistake in D, 
> since we know more now about language design than when Dennis 
> Ritchie designed C about 55 years ago.

I agree, and it's more than just those two languages, so I view 
this as a small barrier to D. It's one of those things that might 
not be major, but it does get annoying.