Re: Replacing the "if" statement with an "if" expression which supersedes it

Operator assignment is not necessarily the only way to do it, because the
issue assignment operators are trying to solve is not having to retype a
really long variable, well, you could have a single unary prefix operator
with a number that basically takes the variable being assigned in the
expression and pastes it into the code like

areallylongvariable = $0+1

turns into

areallylongvariable = areallylongvariable+1

or it could point to any section, which is nice when you just want to swap
some variables

var1, var2 = $2, $1 -- variables are swapped

But anyway.

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 at 13:12, Francisco Olarte <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 at 18:56, 'Calimero' via lua-l
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The conditional is a very fundamental notion in programming, and there
> is a fundamental flaw in not having an expression conditional.
> > I'm trying to deal with this.
>
> The conditional is fundamental, the ternary ( or the funky IF
> expression I drafted previously ) is not. After all we put some men on
> the moon more than fifty years ago without ternaries ( take "we" as
> "the humanity", assume no foul play in the banner photos ). And lot of
> languages do not have them.
>
> If-expression is nice, but I would put it after op-assign in priority,
> and maybe after elvis. But before postincrement, if I ever did that
> one, and anyway to bne useful that need to redefine what a expression
> is first.
>
> ( And I would vote against a pythonesque x if cond else y )
>
> Francisco Olarte.
>
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