Using a standalone 'else' would tickle my brain in the same nice way that being able to declare a variable inside an 'if' statement as if it were a 'for' loop (which you can do in modern C++) does.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Many languages let you scope variables.

In c# you can create an arbitrary scope to declare variables in. Most likely in others as well.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah clever, didn't think of doing this. Not having to encapsulate if statements in scopes would still look cleaner though

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's handy if you're creating temp variables for single use that you don't need to use again.

Although I admit I've only ever done it a couple times lol

Again in c# you can omit the scope and only the next statement is part of an if or loop.

[–] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or a rust "if let"

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Ooh yes. Rust is king when it comes to this sort of inline stuff. Inline match. Mmmmmm!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Block scoped variables are bad?

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

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