Re: orif

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 14/08/15 05:02 PM, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
> > With orif:
> >
> > ```lua
> > local flag = false
> > if i == 1 then
> >      flag = true
> > orif i == 2 then -- explicit fallthrough
> >      print(flag)
> > else -- default
> >      print "Unknown!"
> > end
> > ```
> Without commenting on the idea itself, I think "thenif" makes more
> sense than "orif".
"thenif" makes it seem like an if inside an if.

"orif" is literally the "or" operator (can't stress this enough) 
combined with "if".

It's similar to doing

local flag = false
local function f()
  flag = true
end
if (i==1 and (f() or true)) or i==2 then -- (f() or true) is needed 
because we always want it to be true)
  print(flag)
else
  print("Unknown!")
end

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