[Gretl-devel] Re: one-line if conditions
Am 13.01.2023 um 21:18 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 6:46 AM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> sorry, here's again one of my crazy syntactic sugar ideas: I think it would be
nice if hansl had a more concise way of writing a basic if-endif block, where the thing to
be executed is just a single line.
I agree; this is something I've thought about from time to time. I
kinda like the fortran approach to the one-liner:
if <condition> then <whatever>
which would require "then" as a new keyword. We can discuss this when
we next get a chance.
Sure, having a new keyword wouldn't be so bad. And making the
cross-connection with the different boolean message I just sent: maybe
even introducing AND and OR (all caps, presumably) as aliases for && and
|| could be nice for a high-level language, like we did with TRUE and
FALSE. But let's discuss this.
cheers
sven
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