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Asked: 2026-05-13T12:12:10+00:00

One of the stylistic ‘conventions’ I find slightly irritating in published code, is the

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One of the stylistic ‘conventions’ I find slightly irritating in published code, is the use of:

if(condition) {

instead of (my preference):

if (condition) {

A slight difference, and probably an unimportant one, but it occurred to me that the first style might be justified if ‘if’ statements were implemented as a kind of function call. Then I could stop objecting to it.

Does anyone know of a programming language where an if statement is implemented as a function call, where the argument is a single boolean expression?

EDIT: I realise the blocks following the if() are problematic, and the way I expressed my question was probably too naive, but I’m encouraged by the answers so far.

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    tcl is one language which implements if as a regular in built function/command which takes two parameters ; condition and the code block to execute

    if {$vbl == 1} { puts "vbl is one" }

    http://tmml.sourceforge.net/doc/tcl/if.html

    In fact, all language constructs in tcl (for loop , while loop etc.) are implemented as commands/functions.

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