[fpc-devel] Semicolon before else

Aleksa Todorovic alexione at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 10:37:31 CET 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:11, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
>>
>> > Agree. My primary intention was not to change official language, but
>> > to try to make a change which will help me in my work. I just shared
>> > it with others.
>>
>> But in that case what's needed is not a simple change to this one case
>> but an option to accept Modula-2 style syntax where you've got
>> if...then...end; etc. hence eliminating the "dangling else" problem.
>
> Agree fully, that's how Wirth solved it, and I like it still best.
>

Indeed, that would be far better solution. But, I wonder how many
people out there would be interested in having support for Modula2
syntax inside fpc...?



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