I've used kotlin extensively, where ifs and switches are expressions. I've also seen rust support them. Curiously, Java 12 will also support switch expressions, and java is about as non-expressive as it gets.
On Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 11:39:32 PM UTC+2, Tyler Compton wrote: > > There is some precedent. Python has an if expression of sorts that is > distinct from its if statements: > > print(value1 if condition else value2) > > And in all Lisp dialects I'm familiar with, if is an expression: > > (print (if condition value1 value2)) > > Not to say that this means Go should support it necessarily. > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 12:16 PM Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 9:09 PM Viktor Kojouharov <vkojo...@gmail.com >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> >> > I'm interested to know whether it was considered (I can't imagine that >> it wasn't) for if and switch statements to be expressions instead >> >> I can't imagine it was considered. Is there a precedence in other >> language? Not even C supports that. >> >> >> -- >> >> -j >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
