[fpc-devel] Proposal: Enhanced replacement for assignment operators

[Alexander Klenin]

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 01:12, Martin <fpc at mfriebe.de> wrote:
>  On 06/08/2010 14:53, Alexander Klenin wrote:
>>
>> Logical ones are actually less important for me,
>> but mod= and especially div= are rather useful.
>> Last time I wished a had div= was just a week ago.
>
> I could see that in a language where div was some symbol (like % or :) but
> with a word?

What it the difference? I agree that "%" is slightly better notation than "mod",
but that is totally insignificant, and since we are stuck with "mod",
I see no reason to change it.

> Anyway, couldn't you just go the same way that inc does?
> procedure div(var op1: Integer; op2: Integer); inline;
> and then write
> Div(a, 4);

1) No, because div is a keyword.
2) Also, the actual use case was for TPoints,
and I have already overloaded operator div.
I think that the need to duplicate code and pollute
namespace with additional "DivAssign" procedure
did not improve the code readability at all.

-- 
Alexander S. Klenin