[fpc-pascal] IfThen() intrinsic removed

[Lukasz Sokol]

On 05/02/16 09:22, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 04/02/16 21:33, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>>
>>> Disappointed :(
>>
>> Well, such is life. I'm also disappointed that my bank account doesn't contain millions. But I learned to live with it :-)
>>
>> But all hope is not lost yet.
>>
>>> Why was it done? I thought that pretty much everyone was in favor?
>>
>> Not quite, form was also deemed important. It is a tricky balance.
>>
>> To recapitulate:
>>
>> There were various choices:
>>
>> a) not adding at all
>> b) a ? b : c
>> c) if a then b else c
>> d) iif()    (or some variant thereof)
>   
> what of
>   e) some kind of assignment, requiring use of braces, e.g. 
>    x :=  ( if condition then truevalue else flasevalue );
> or
>    x :=  ( condition then truevalue else falsevalue );
> 
> ... ?
> 
> It also does not clash with function names, only reuses same keywords...

An as reusing keywords is a no-no...

I wrote x := ( condition, true := truevalue, false:=falsevalue); in previous email;
but since true and false are constants (and reserved names) too,

maybe, actually, a new keyword (pair) would be actually OK ?

x := (condition; whentrue:=truevalue; whenfalse:=falsevalue); ?
 
yes requiring use of assignment, braces, and assignments inside braces. 

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