would anyone be down for kotlin adding the ability to bound an if condition like this

if foobool then

instead of

if( foobool )

? i would enjoy it for when using

if

and

else

as a ternary operator

I’m not down for

then

, but I do like to see braces and parens removed where it makes sense

it's just that other than a newline, how would the compiler know the logic that separates the condition from the blocks?

it’d be nice if if/else let you omit parentheses when you do use braces though

older languages and low level languages like VHDL use if/then

if configure { false } { println("configured") } else { println("not configured")}

I think compiler would be even more confused than humans reading this

Interesting indeed, why is not possible for smart modern compilers to detect first statement in a branch as branch condition, e.g.

if <first_statement> <second_statement> <third_statement> else <fourth_statement>

adding braces where it's necessary? Where the

<first_statement>

is a condition, and the

<third_statement>

,

<fourth_statement>

are those which are returned as the results from the branch (as we have it)

It is a balancing act between compilation performance, language rules complexity, readability and I'm probably missing something else, as well.

hmmm, so i'm wondering if it would be at all possible to add infix functionality so that users could create their own if statement syntax?