[fpc-pascal] New feature: IfThen() intrinsic

[Marcos Douglas]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:06 PM, David Butler <djbutler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Speaking personally, the reason why I like Pascal syntax over C is exactly
> because it isn't short. I prefer the verbosity of Pascal rather than
> "cryptic" syntax of the C family. e.g. Pascal uses "function" not "func",
> "procedure" not "proc", "if then else" not "if ()", etc. Using short C-like
> syntax in Pascal goes against the long established style of Pascal.

+1

IMHO we can't use "IfThen" (or iif, IfThenElse, etc) as if it were a
real function, because it is not.

So, according to the "spirit of Pascal, what do you think about this?


V := inline If Condition then ThenExpr else ElseExpr;


Only "inline" keyword will be introduced.
But I don't know if will be more hard to implement this.

Just my 2 cents...

Best,
Marcos Douglas