[fpc-pascal] Syntax changes suggestions

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Jul 17 10:11:12 CEST 2018


In our previous episode, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal said:
> > interested in why it is not supported.
> 
> At least Delphi Tokyo (10.2) does not support it.
> 
> If I remember the discussion correctly it came to light that some users 
> would need "try ? finally ? except ? end" while others would need "try ? 
> except ? finally ? end" and even some "try ? finally ? except ? finally 
> ? end" or the like. With differences in opinion like this the idea was 
> dropped, cause this flexibility exists already, namely by using separate 
> blocks.

And since the feature is implementable as an IDE macro (generating a nested
try except/finally) it doesn't make Ooccam's razor of usefulness to begin
with.



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