Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safety, and readability

Re:Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safe... by majewsky on Monday August 29, 2016 @05:01AM (#12380802)

Yeah, that's just if as an expression, replacing the ?: operator. Compare to

  return (value >= radix) ? error.InvalidChar : value;

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Re:Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safe... by naasking on Monday August 29, 2016 @07:55AM (#12381272)

I actually prefer a ternary arrangement that lets you chain arbitrary such expressions like a truth table:

    return (value >= radix) ? error.InvalidChar:
           (comeCondition)  ? error.OtherError:
           ...
                              value;

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Re:Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safe... by drjeats on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:39PM (#12383099)

I like doing that too, but the Zig syntax doesn't prevent that kind of arrangement, just makes it a bit wider.

    return if (value >= radix) error.InvalidChar else
           if (comeCondition)  error.OtherError  else
           ...
                               value;

or maybe this, but it seems uglier to me:

    return if      (value >= radix) error.InvalidChar
           else if (comeCondition)  error.OtherError
           ...
           else                     value;

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