[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&gt; 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.