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rohitarondekar on Jan 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Striking parallels between mathematics and softwar...

For the second return to work doesn't the if have to be an expression i.e return the result of evaluating either y or z as the result of the if expression? If the language has if statements like say Javascript then it won't work.

evincarofautumn on Jan 20, 2015 [–]

Yes. And that is why statement–expression distinctions are stupid, because they obscure these relationships. In C-land it would be “if-else” vs. “?:”.

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