Fluent If-Else statements?

Some showerthoughts for the day:

I think it would have been nice if languages support fluent conditional statements.

So instead of

if(condition) {
    someFunction();
} else if (anotherCondition) {
    anotherFunction()
} else {
    doSomething()
}

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Maybe have something like

if(condition, someFunction)
    .elseIf(anotherCondition, anotherFunction)
    .else(doSomething)

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or go further and make it return a value

var someVar = if(condition, someFunction)
                    .elseIf(anotherCondition, anotherFunction)
                    .else(defaultValue)

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Pros:

• you get a more succinct and arguably more expressive statement
• if used properly, it may read like a prose

Cons:

• it’s probably unnatural or unintuitive to some people; more cognitive load perhaps?

I’m not actually sure if this already exists elsewhere and I’m too lazy to find out if it does.
But what do you guys think? Is this useful or am I just overthinking it?

原文链接：Fluent If-Else statements?