[fpc-pascal] [OT] Re: Feature proposal: function-based assignment operatorst

[John]

On 04/04/2013 10:54 PM, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
> On 02/04/2013 14:30, Sven Barth wrote:
> <snip> 
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sven
> So far, not many (i.e. none) comments in favor...
>
> L.
>
Well, if you are looking for votes, I certainly would NEVER use it. 
(Which is not quite the same as being opposed to someone doing it, as 
long as I can ignore it).  To me, the construct is far, far more ugly 
than anything it solves.

More importantly, the c style operators are vaguely tollerable becasue 
they are actually operators (though I still never use them). Doing this 
with a function seems horrible to me.

Wouldn't the Pascal way of doing this be something like

procedure minproc(var target: integer; array of integer)

which would then take the minimum of target and all the other values, 
and set the result back to target.  (It could probably be a function and 
return the min value as well, for when that would be more convenient.)

ps Hope I have kept track of the context of the thread, it has been a 
long one ...

cheers,
John Sunderland