return if statement request

[MairwunNx]

I have seen similar syntactic sugar in some languages, for example Kotlin, I would like to see it in BosqueLanguage, I think it would not be a bad idea for a language design.

Example:

function abs(x: Int): Int {
    if(x < 0) {
        return -x;
    }
    else {
        return x;
    }
}

If use return if statement:

function abs(x: Int): Int {
    return if(x < 0) {
        -x;
    }
    else {
        x;
    }
}

Example 2:

function absy(x?: Int): Int {
    if(x == none) {
        return 0;
    }

    return {
        var! y = x;
        if(y < 0) {
            y = -y;
        }
        yield y;
    }
}

If use return if statement:

function absy(x?: Int): Int {
    return if(x == none) {
        0;
    }
    else {
        var! y = x;
        if(y < 0) {
            y = -y;
        }
        y;
    }
}

[hearot]

I love the abs example. Awesome!

[mrkmarron]

Thanks for the examples. This is a planned feature, issue #26 which would allow if as well as match to be used this way.