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		wruza on Oct 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Carmack on inlined code (2014) I guess you’re asking about the block part — it’s a minor syntactic convenience and not the main point of the comment. It avoids the word function/lambda or def-block and related syntactic inconvenience like parentheses around and at the end and interference with ASI (when applicable).

kibwen on Oct 9, 2024 [–]

You're looking for blocks-as-expressions, e.g. the following is valid Rust:

    let x = {
        whatever;
        5
    }; // assigns 5 to x

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