On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:54 PM, john skaller
<skal...@users.sourceforge.net>wrote:
>
> On 10/10/2012, at 2:15 PM, Dobes Vandermeer wrote:
>
> > Didn't you recently add the "as" syntax which would allow, for example:
> >
> > if test1 as x1 do
> >
> > elif test2 as x2 do
> >
> > elif test3 as x3 do
> >
> > done
> >
> > ?
> >
> > This probably eliminates the nested else if 90% of the time without
> adding to the language.
>
> That only works with expressions. The word "test1" above should be viewed
> as a
> sequence of computations rather than a single function/generator.
>
I think the conditional of the "if" is an expression - won't it inherit the
"as" capability?
> Of course in *this* case we might say
>
> if Match ..
>
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Probably need a more compelling use case to
look at ...
> And of course I could write, for example:
>
> dfn = if m2 then v2a else v2 endif . 1 . string . strip
>
> or even better if I used expressions instead of statements.
>
There is a lot of "clean up" and streamlining possible in the code you
posted, it seems to have a lot of unnecessary duplication.
In the process, the need for "otherwise" should probably disappear, too.
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