On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Stefan Karpinski <ste...@karpinski.org> wrote: > I kind of like that idea, actually. > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Matt Bauman <mbau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I quickly acclimated to Stefan's && idiom and now happily read and write >> code containing it. That said, it did throw me for a loop when first >> learning the language. I'm not too big of a fan of reserving another >> keyword for an optional syntax... but I could perhaps support its inclusion >> if >> it were *only* for one-line if statements and didn't require a terminating >> `end` (and had no support for else/elseif clauses):
+1 I've no personal problem with the idiomatic version using && but in the interests of making compact code which is also readable by new users I think this would be a good step. It's great to not have to trade off legibility against compactness.
