Statements vs. expressions (was Re: Loop-and-a-half (Re: Curious assignment behaviour)

[Ville Vainio]

huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com (Huaiyu Zhu) writes:

> Agreed generally.  A clarification, though: the proposal does not allow
> statements in expressions; it allows statements _between_ conditional
> keywords and the corresponding expressions, like
> 
> while [ <statements> ; ] <expression> :  <suite>
> if [ <statements> ; ] <expression> :  <suite>

By the way, what is the big win with having statements in the
language, as opposed to just having expressions (possibly returning
'Unit' or something similar)?

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