[fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Am 2017-05-24 um 13:59 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
 > But in Object Pascal you have...
 >
 >  begin
 >     ...
 >     if <whatever> then
 >     begin
 >       ...
 >       if <whatever_else> then
 >       begin
 >         ...
 > Object Pascal blocks are longer to type - “begin” vs ”{” and “end” vs 
”}”.

I don't know why this argument pops up over and over again.
To me it's just the opposite:
I can type "begin" and "end" much faster than the cryptic { and } (on my 
german keyboard).
I use all 10 fingers for typing and each special character is an 
interruption in my coding flow..

Also, as I already often said:
Program code is *written* only once but maybe *read* very often.
I prefer readable code even if it takes a millisecond longer to type 
(which is not the case for me!)


 > Also IF statements require the extra “then” keyword etc.

Same argumentation here.
I don't bother to type just another (ASCII) word.
Before I can think about a delay it is typed already...


 > As for indentation. At least with real TAB character indentation, you 
can configure the width of a TAB as a user configurable parameter 
without affecting the source code. With space indentation you are stuck 
with whatever the original author did.

That does not help me as I use an indentation scheme that not only relys 
on TABs.
I always indent the begin (and end) of a block together with the block:

if true then
    begin
    DoSomething;
    end;

This way the indentation always looks similar
independent from whether you have begin/end or not:

if true then
    DoSomething;

Some people indent the code lines only:

if true then
begin
    DoSomething;
end;

And some write the begin on the same line:

if true then begin
    ...
end;

You cannot solve all these cases just by TABs.