[fpc-pascal] Re: Is this if /else syntax wrong?

[Frank Church]

It is working now on 2.2.4. I think it was a temporary IDE glitch, which is
what I suspected. Adding the ; made it go away, but it wasn't really the
problem

2010/7/1 Mattias Gärtner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>

> Zitat von Frank Church <vfclists at gmail.com>:
>
>
>  I will be upgrading to 2.4.0 soon.
>>
>> It shouldn't be an error then.
>>
>> 2010/7/1 Guillermo Martínez Jiménez <gmartinez at burdjia.com>
>>
>>  > procedure TfrmHometel.SetSplitterSizes;
>>> > var
>>> >  i: integer;
>>> > begin
>>> >  for i:=3D 0 to ComponentCount - 1 do
>>> >  begin
>>> >   if Components[i] is TSplitter then
>>> >   begin
>>> >     with TSplitter(Components[i]) do
>>> >     begin
>>> >      if Cursor =3D crHSplit then
>>> >        Width :=3D 7
>>> >      else if Cursor =3D crVSplit then
>>> >        Height :=3D 7;
>>> >      ; // <-- removing this semicolon results in a syntax error. Is it
>>> > syntax error some kind of extra strict compiler check.
>>> >      Color :=3D clBlue;
>>> >     end;
>>> >   end;
>>> >  end;
>>> > end;
>>>
>>> Compare with next:
>>>
>>>     if Cursor =3D crHSplit then
>>>       Width :=3D 7
>>>     else
>>>       if Cursor =3D crVSplit then
>>>         Height :=3D 7; // <-- This semicolon is for the "if".
>>>     ; // <-- This semicolon is for the "else".
>>>
>>
> No. A semicolon ends *all* open if/if-else/do statements.
> The second semicolon is an empty statement - a 'no operation'.
>
>
>
>  Is like this:
>>>
>>> IF ... THEN
>>> BEGIN
>>>  ...
>>> END
>>> ELSE BEGIN
>>>  IF ... THEN
>>>  BEGIN
>>>   ...
>>>  END;  // <-- This END is for the "IF".
>>> END;  // <-- This END is for the "ELSE".
>>>
>>> I recommend to use "BEGIN ... END" blocks in nested "IF" always to
>>> prevent this kind of mistakes.
>>>
>>
> In general I agree, but in this case there are no nested ifs, so it won't
> help here.
>
> Mattias
>
>
>
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