• Brian Hammond <d at brianhammond dot com> <Brian_member pathlink.com> May 21 2004
• Juan C <Juan_member pathlink.com> May 21 2004
• Stephen Waits <steve waits.net> May 21 2004
• "Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> May 21 2004
• Brian Hammond <d at brianhammond dot com> <Brian_member pathlink.com> May 21 2004
• "Phill" <phill pacific.net.au> May 22 2004

Brian Hammond <d at brianhammond dot com> <Brian_member pathlink.com> writes:

I've never really liked Perl's general appearance except for its alternate if
and unless constructs.

These have the structure:

<statement> if <condition>;

<statement> unless <condition>;

e.g.

print "INFO: this is a message\n" 
if $verbose && $debug_level >= DBG_INFO;

process_input() unless length $input == 0;

The alternate if construct is equivalent to the D:

if (<condition>) 
{
<statement>;
}

The alternate unless construct is equivalent to the D:

if (! <condition>) 
{
<statement>;
}

I really like the unless because it reads so well.

"do this unless this is true"

I would think this bit of syntactic sugar wouldn't be too hard to add to D since
it's just a simple transformation.

I apologize if this has been requested and debated already.

Brian

Juan C <Juan_member pathlink.com> writes:

<snip>
<statement> if <condition>;
<statement> unless <condition>;



Always makes me think of a bomb squad technician in a comedy:

"Now cut the blue wire... <pause> but before you do that..."

Stephen Waits <steve waits.net> writes:

Juan C wrote:
 <snip>
 
<statement> if <condition>;
<statement> unless <condition>;


 </snip>
 
 Always makes me think of a bomb squad technician in a comedy:
 
 "Now cut the blue wire... <pause> but before you do that..."
 
 


I have to say that this is one of the ugliest constructs I've ever 
faced.  :)

--Steve

[glad to say that my perl hacking days are mostly behind me..]

"Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

"Brian Hammond" <d at brianhammond dot comBrian_member pathlink.com> wrote
in message news:c8lmu2$vdm$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I really like the unless because it reads so well.

 "do this unless this is true"


That just seems backwards to me <g>. I like things to execute forwards, not
backwards.

Brian Hammond <d at brianhammond dot com> <Brian_member pathlink.com> writes:

 I really like the unless because it reads so well.

 "do this unless this is true"


That just seems backwards to me <g>. I like things to execute forwards, not
backwards.


Well she's your baby so that's that :-)
Brian

"Phill" <phill pacific.net.au> writes:

"Brian Hammond" <d at brianhammond dot comBrian_member pathlink.com> wrote
in message news:c8mh1p$264r$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I really like the unless because it reads so well.

 "do this unless this is true"


That just seems backwards to me <g>. I like things to execute forwards,




backwards.


 Well she's your baby so that's that :-)


Thank god for that. It seems a bit strange to me as well.
I dont like using a  do / while either.

Phill