If

The if statement is one of the most basic conditional constructs.

var a = 21
var b = 42

if (a > b) {
    say "a is greater"
}
elsif (a == b) {
    say "a and b are equal"
}
else {
    say "b is greater"
}

A somewhat special feature is the support for capturing the original value evaluated in the if statement, such as:

if (some_function()) { |value|
    say value
}

Because Sidef is weakly typed, the condition inside the if statement can be any object, which is implicitly converted to a Bool object. However, the value stored inside the captured block variable will be the result of the original expression, which may not necessarily be a Bool object.

Note that the captured value won't have any other methods called on it before being captured, for example the following may be unexpected:

var str = "ab"
if (str =~ /^a(.)$/) { |m|
    say m
    say m=="b"
    say m.class
    say m.dump
}

It will output

b
false
Match
(str =~ /^a(.)$/) # a Match object

because the entire Match object from the match expression =~ will be captured by the Block. To save the first capture and make m=="b", use (str=~/^a(.)$/)[0].