[swift-evolution] ternary operator ?: suggestion

[Chris Lattner]

> On Dec 11, 2015, at 5:36 PM, Andrey Tarantsov via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
>> How about:
>> 
>> let v = if condition then “A" else “B"
> 
> I don't think introducing a separate "then" keyword is a good idea, two subtly different kinds of IFs would be confusing.
> 
> I guess you meant:
> 
> let v = if condition { "A" } else { "B” }

I don’t really want to wade into this discussion, but if A and B are intended to be *expressions* instead of an arbitrary sequence of statements|decls|exprs, then a more consistent syntax would be:

	let v = if condition (A) else (b) 

The immediate problem with that is that juxtaposition of two expressions (condition, and A [with or without parens]) will lead to immediate syntactic ambiguity.

-Chris

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