[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.