Building upon that, I'd prefer `when (stuff)` to a...

# language-proposals

[louiscad]

Building upon that, I'd prefer when (stuff) to allow just calling methods, adding the receiver to the branch conditions, or have stuff.when do that as a new special syntax. (Thinking about how it would translate to actual uses cases, I think I prefer that latter approach)

[Burkhard]

I don’t care either way. I think I would prefer when(stuff) but that might just be me.

[Ruckus]

There's an issue in the tracker you can vote for: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-28359

[louiscad]

Thanks @Ruckus, I added a comment for my alternative syntax proposal.

[Hullaballoonatic]

your proposal also might make way for

when (a) {
    < b -> foo()
    b   -> bar()
    > b -> baz()
}

instead of

when (a.compareTo(b)) {
    -1 -> foo()
    0 -> bar()
    else -> baz()
}

the former reads a lot more akin to the equivalent mathematical syntax