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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Aug 24, 2025 at 3:28:45 PM, Karoly Balogh via fpc-devel <<a href="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div>The new syntax has strong Python vibes to me. This is where I saw/used<br>this the most. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. My code is usually<br>very oldschool and I tend to avoid most of the "modern" bells & whistles,<br>as I have a firm belief they hinder long-term maintainability, or they're<br>simply eye-sore (mainly that Delphi inline variable declaration comes to<br>mind) but this is one of the "newschool" syntax things which I'd gladly<br>use myself.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I think they added a IfThen generic which can be implicitly specialized now so you can do things like:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> s := IfThen(p <> nil, 'valid', 'nil’);</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">vs </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> s := If p <> nil then 'valid' else 'nil';<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It’s almost easier to read. I’m not sure I’d like the have if-statements confused with expressions when scanning code either. At least the C version is more terse but that one can be hard to identify also. All in all I think IfThen is actually pretty good.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></body></html>