[fpc-pascal] IfThen() intrinsic removed

OBones obones at free.fr
Fri Feb 5 10:21:34 CET 2016


Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

> The only use case that would be gained is the non-evaluation of one of 
> the arguments.
Yes, and that's pretty much the only use that I could think of, but it 
would be very convenient when testing for a variable to be assigned and 
give a default value it if is not.

Something along those lines: 
http://docs.elementscompiler.com/Oxygene/Expressions/MemberAccess/

I'm not saying it should be implemented right now, but it might be a 
start for some thinking.



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