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networkimprov on March 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The ups and downs of porting 50k lines of C++ to G...

The main rationale for the lack of ternary, "We don't do control flow with symbols" should also disallow this:

    t && a() || b()

Admittedly tho, nested ternaries are tedious to parse by eye.

simonask on March 14, 2019 [–]

They're nothing against nested applications of the above, though. :-)

    t && a() || (u && b() || c())

Personally, I enjoy Rust's choice of letting `if` be an expression.

paulddraper on March 14, 2019 | [–]

> I enjoy Rust's choice

As a Scala user, I agree it really is the best

   val a = if (t) a() else b()

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