Re: block return semantic

[Will Leshner <will@...>]

On Wednesday, June 27, 2001, at 07:50 AM, Tom Wrensch wrote:

> Could you elaborate on the "all sorts of reasons" for not allowing
> if-then-else as an expression rather than just a statement?

I think the comment was aimed at the more general "make Lua a functional 
language", not at the specific "make Lua 'if' an expression".

> Note that an alternative approach would be to implement a special
> expression version of if-then-else such as Java's <cond> ? <exp1> :
> <exp2> form.

That construction, is, of course, a C construction. It happens to be in 
Java as Java is basically C. It also happens to be in C++.