Comment on ifn't

• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Using a standalone ‘else’ would tickle my brain in the same nice way that being able to declare a variable inside an ‘if’ statement as if it were a ‘for’ loop (witch you can do in modern C++) does.

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  • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Many languages let you scope variables.

    In c# you can create an arbitrary scope to declare variables in. Most likely in others as well.

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah clever, didn’t think of doing this. Not having to encapsulate if statements in scopes would still look cleaner though

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      • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s handy if you’re creating temp variables for single use that you don’t need to use again.

        Although I admit I’ve only ever done it a couple times lol

        Again in c# you can omit the scope and only the next statement is part of an if or loop.

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  • Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or a rust “if let”

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ooh yes. Rust is king when it comes to this sort of inline stuff. Inline match. Mmmmmm!

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Block scoped variables are bad?

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🤷‍♂️

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• Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let's just scrap every language except various forms of BASIC.

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  • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Please God, no. I had to unravel terminal scripting code that was written in some propriety BASIC language with basically no documentation.

    Took me a chunk of time trying to figure out how it worked before I made the realization that it was BASIC

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Try PL/SQL.

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