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

[Sven Barth]

On 01.02.2016 20:33, Marcos Douglas wrote:
> 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.

If we would go the route of such an if-expression instead of an
intrinsic then just leave away the "inline". That's absolutely not
needed... (Note: implementation wouldn't be hard at all)

Regards,
Sven