On 2010-12-19 20:33, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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As you can see, most of the verbosity comes from the fact that lambdas in
D and C++ contain statements, not a single expression. It's like if-then-
else vs ternary ?: -- In languages like Scala these are the same built-in
feature.
FWIW, I've always found "if() else" and other such constructs to be a bit
verbose to use inside an expression. So I've always liked ?: (But I can
certainly see the advantages of being able to use statements as
expressions.)
There are other places where they can be useful, like initializing
variables:
auto y = if (x == 3)
4;
else
5;
In this simple case the ternary operator would of course be better to use.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
