[fpc-pascal] Changing variable in conditional

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 09:44:13 +0100
Krzysztof <dibo20 at wp.pl> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I like when Free Pascal trying to implement best practices from other
> languages. That was with increment variable using assign operator: i += 1.
> Anyway, few days ago I analyzed C++ code and I liked one syntax:
> 
> if ( ( i = GetSomeValue ) >= 10 ) {
>   // variable "i" already has value returned by GetSomeValue
> }
> 
> I wonder if FPC has equivalent for this.

Even C has some equivalent:

i = GetSomeValue;
if ( i >= 10 ) {
  // no comment needed, the value of i is obvious
}

Mattias