Some syntactic sugar proposals

[Andreas Waldenburger]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:18:51 -0500 Mel <mwilson at the-wire.com> wrote:

> Christopher wrote:
> 
> >> ? Of course we can write it as
> >> t = foo() if pred(foo()) else default_value
> >> but here we have 2 foo() calls instead of one. Why can't we write
> >> just something like this:
> >> t = foo() if pred(it) else default_value
> >> where "it" means "foo() value"?
> > 
> > i don't like magic names. what about:
> > 
> > t = foo() as v if pred(v) else default_value
> 
> !!  so: assignment inside an expression.
> 
I like the idea of having an "as ... if" construct, though. :)

/W

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