[fpc-devel] new features and facilities

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 10/8/2015 9:54 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
>>
>> I had the idea to implement inline-if as well. I think the syntax I 
>> selected is derived from Oxygene, but it looks very Pascal and 
>> shouldn't break anything:
>>
>> left := if expr1 then expr2 else expr3;
>>
>> Thereby expr1 returns Boolean and expr2 determines the type of the 
>> whole inline-if, thus expr3 needs to be compatible to expr2.
>>
>>
> Sorry, but that doesn't "look Pascal" at all, and is anything but easily 
> understandable, specially given the possible complexity of expr[1,2,3]...

But at least in this instance there's /always/ an ELSE, so there's no 
risk of apparent ambiguity due to "dangling else": a closing END or FI 
isn't needed.

It's more difficult to argue for inline CASE, particularly since that 
one might have optional ELSE or OTHERWISE.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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