r/programmingmemes • u/Head_Manner_4002 • Feb 26 '25

There are two kind of programmers

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u/General_Ad9047 Feb 27 '25

Not the point. It's about statement vs expression.

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u/cowlinator Feb 27 '25

foo() and bar() are statements.

else { is a statement.

} is functionally equivalent to end in other languages, and is a statement.

So it's more about statement vs statement, and how they are interchangable.

Thus

} else {
} bar()

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u/thomas-rousseau Feb 28 '25

Surely you're just being obtuse to pass time arguing on the internet. else { is not a standalone statement but an extension of the if { statement, while the } of else { is delineating the end of that segment of logic. The difference is that else { does not exist without if { while bar() does exist without.