[fpc-devel] Multiple variable initialization

[Anton Shepelev]

Florian Klaempfl to Ondrej Pokorny:

> > Anyway,  my  favorite  example  of non-pascalish
> > syntax within FPC are the +=, -= etc. operators.
> > I  really don't understand how they made it into
> > FPC if so many  FPC  developers  are  stubbornly
> > against simple and helpful extensions :)
>
> The  were  added in ~1996 when I maintained FPC by
> applying patches to a source tree on my hd :)  But
> to  be  honest,  I  am  not sure if I accepted the
> patch today :)

On the other hand, '+=', '-=', '*=',  and  '/='  fit
perfectly with the genuine Wirthian operator ':='.

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