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SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Or a rust “if let”

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- SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Block scoped variables are bad?

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- SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  🤷‍♂️
  
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