Comment by jasonjmcghee

I see where you're coming from.

Many languages support the ternary operator, where it would be:

  foo = y ? x : z

Which "feels better" but I think that's because I learned ternaries first.

Some languages like Rust and Kotlin do support assignment of an if statement like

  foo = if (y) { x } else { z }

And I think that's a good step, as it doesn't need to introduce new syntax, just allows assignment of "blocks"