Why not introduce a "but" condition?

Question

Hi,
why not introduce a "but" condition into the Java language?
Here's an example:
if(earth.isUnderAttack()){
���go to 10
}but if(earth.getAttack().getAttacker().equals("alien") && earth.getStatus().equals("nice place")){
���go to 20
}else{
���go to 30
Doesn't it look nicer, rather then doing it like this?
if(earth.isUnderAttack()){
���if(earth.getAttack().getAttacker().equals("alien") && earth.getStatus().equals("nice place")){
�������go to 20
���}else{
�������go to 10
���}
}else{
���go to 30
Cheers,
Alexander H�glind
[email protected]

Answer 1

ok... I'll try to explain it on more time...
If the first "if" condition is true AND the "but if" condition is true then excecute "but if". But if the first "if" condition is true and the "but if" condition is false then excecute the first "if".
If the first "if" condition is false, then we don�t have to test the "but if" condition.
At the momement the only way to do that is like this:
if (isTrue){
if(isTrue)
doCommand(2)
else
doComand(1)
My idea is this:
if(isTrue)
doCommand(1)
but if(isTrue)
doCommand(2)
Remember, this is only an idea I got when I was programming and the code was hard to read.
shrink_laureate said something about Perl having it implemented in some kind of way. If they have, then for sure there�s a reason, don�t you think....?
And you should also be careful to imply that there is some universal idea of how programming code should look like. And for whatever it�s worth saying it... don�t you think that Java or C etc. is reflecting the structure of the language that you speak more than assembly does?
Alexander H�glind
[email protected]