As discussed, I have pushed the changes which allow block syntactic
sugar in expressions. I think the best way to describe the rules is as
follows:
- In Rust, a statement is either a declaration or an expression followed
by a semicolon. The result of evaluating the expression is ignored.
-
My first reaction is 'oh god no! that complicates the rules even
more!'. But then I remembered how frustrating it is to work out a
proposal and have it shot down for vague knee-jerk reasons like that.
So, eh, let's just try this for a while and see whether it causes more
confusion than the rules we
I've been working for a while now on making it possible to use the
syntactic sugar for blocks within expressions. I've been doing various
iterations, trying to find the formulation that was both (a) easy enough
to explain and (b) made minimal changes to the existing language syntax
/ code. Al
