[chrismorgan]

Block-oriented languages can do it; Rust, for example:

  let result = if boolean_flag {
      do_this()
  } else {
      do_that()
  };

Rust actually doesn’t have a ternary operator.

[lmm]

What do you mean "block-oriented"? I'd say this is part of Rust's ML heritage, and comes of being expression-oriented: if is just an expression, and evaluates to a value like any other expression.

[nerdponx]

Maybe "block oriented" is supposed to mean "has blocks that are expressions".

[chrismorgan]

Sorry, “expression-oriented” was what I meant to write.