The ‘then’ keyword as an infix operator for its braceless syntax version:
val text = if x > 0 then 'ok' else 'fail...' // current
val text = x > 0 then 'ok else 'fail...' // suggestion
The ‘then’ keyword as an infix operator for its braceless syntax version:
val text = if x > 0 then 'ok' else 'fail...' // current
val text = x > 0 then 'ok else 'fail...' // suggestion
This would likely be hard to parse (both for the compiler and humans). What’s so bad about keeping the if
? It’s one of the shortest keywords.
I imagine the goal is to look like C’s trinary expression: cond ? thenRes : elseRes
.
IMO, redundant unreadable option. Scala already has too many ways of doing the same thing.
Worth comparing to match
as infix, which is at least proposed for Scala 3.
To me, it doesn’t sound more outrageous than other ideas that came to pass.
I seem to recall there was a previous topic about implementing ternary conditional.
such constructs can be made easily in scala 3, even with nice error messages for unsupported cases (using different keywords of course). I don’t see any gain here.
import scala.util.NotGiven
import scala.annotation.implicitNotFound
extension (b:Boolean)
def |?[T](a: => T)(
using @implicitNotFound("argument of |? operator cannot be Unit. T == ${T}")
nu:NotGiven[Unit <:< T]
): T | Unit = if (b) a else ()
extension [T](arg: T | Unit)
def |[E](or: => E): T | E = arg match {
case _:Unit => or
case a:T => a
}
val x = 5
x >= 5 |? "biggerOrEq" | "smaller"