[fpc-devel] new features and facilities

[David W Noon]

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On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 16:12:56 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd
(markMLl.fpc-devel at telemetry.co.uk) wrote about "Re: [fpc-devel] new
features and facilities" (in <mv64m9$95v$1 at pye-srv-01.telemetry.co.uk>):

> Ondrej Pokorny wrote:
> 
> As Michael has said, adding an extra  else  or for that matter 
> otherwise  would be a problem.
> 
>> And what about the inline if? That should be backwards compatible
>> at a first glance. And it would be a fun thing because the Delphi
>> community has asked for it for many years and Embarcadero looks
>> like they won't add it at all :)
> 
> Inline if is an ALGOL feature, and it's inexplicable why it's never
> been in Pascal.

Indeed, it is even more succinct in C/C++:

   x = <boolean> ? <then part> : <else part>;

This was taken directly from ALGOL 60 and remains a very elegant feature.

However, Jensen & Wirth excluded it from the original Pascal Report.
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Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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