<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel <<a href="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org</a>> schrieb am Fr., 11. Sep. 2026, 17:43:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Op 11-9-2026 om 16:31 schreef Mattias Gaertner via fpc-devel:<br>
> Although I am often unhappy with Embarcaderos syntax choices, the "is <br>
> not" I like. It looks Pascal, does not bite existing code, is easier <br>
> to read, and is easy to implement.<br>
<br>
But two things to do the same things is nearly always worse. For that <br>
to be worthwhile the advantage must be massive, but that is not really <br>
the case. It is superficial syntax at best.<br></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes. A language should be as orthogonal as possible to avoid confusing users with multiple ways to achieve the same goal. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thus in my opinion this should be restricted to mode Delphi or at least a modeswitch (same with "not in"). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Probably it is one of the voted in language extensions.<br></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And as always it shows that such users always want useless stuff... 🙄 </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, </div><div dir="auto">Sven </div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div>