[fpc-pascal] a proposal about "with" syntax

[Luca Olivetti]

Al 17/03/13 13:16, En/na Sven Barth ha escrit:
> On 17.03.2013 11:42, Paul Ishenin wrote:
>> 17.03.13, 18:25, Sven Barth пишет:
>>>> With a=VeryLongNameForARecord, b=AnotherRecordWithAVeryLongName do ...
>>>
>>> Now THAT is really unpascalish... either ":=" or the already suggested
>>> "as"...
>>
>> Why? Constants and Types are also use '=' instead of ':=' for
>> assignments.
> 
> But we aren't in a constant or type section here. Also one uses ":=" in
> the for-loop header.

But, differently than a for-loop, it's not an assignment, it's just an
alias definition.
Note that I can live without the option (after all I've not been using
the TI compiler for more than 20 years), but I liked the syntax at the
time and I still think it could be useful.

Bye
-- 
Luca