Variable declaration primary expression
Paul Backus
snarwin at gmail.com
Mon Jan 20 21:31:18 UTC 2025
On Monday, 20 January 2025 at 20:41:42 UTC, IchorDev wrote:
> Someone brought up this clever idea here:
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/20653#issuecomment-2581474608
> What does everyone think about being able to declare variables
> in expressions? Is there any pre-existing syntax that blocks us
> from being able to easily do this?
This sounds like a great feature for writing absolutely
horrendous code.
Imagine: variables declared in the middle of function calls.
Variables declared inside the initialization of other variables.
struct Point
{
double x = (double y = 0);
}
void main()
{
import std.stdio;
readf("%f, %f", (Point p).tupleof);
writefln("p = (%f, %f)", p.x, p.y);
}
Is this really what we want? If someone submitted code like this
to one of your projects, would you accept it?
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