[fpc-devel] new features and facilities

[Sven Barth]

Am 13.10.2015 09:34 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt" <michael at freepascal.org>:
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> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Marco van de Voort wrote:
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>> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
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>>>>> I'm not sure this kind of semantics is possible with a compiler
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>>>> intrinsic...
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>>>>> But if it is: In that case the IfThen or IIF() or somesuch has my
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>>>> absolute top preference, followed by ternary. (and the If .. then
>>>> expression should be blasted to hell ;) )
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>>>> Yes a compiler intrinsic could handle that. In the end all three
syntaxes
>>>> are the same code representation anyway: namely an if-node.
>>>> The IfThen() intrinsic would be fine with me as well. Let's call this
our
>>>> common ground ;)
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>>> Agreed !
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>> (ifthen clashes name with the delphi functions of the same name in a much
>> used unit as math, the name should be different but the intrinsic
principle
>> IMHO is best)
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> IIF ?

As someone else already wrote name clashes shouldn't be a problem as Math
is always used after System and thus Math.IfThen takes precedence.

Regards,
Sven
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