[fpc-pascal] IfThen() intrinsic removed

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Lukasz Sokol wrote:

> On 05/02/16 09:45, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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> [...]
>>> so I think no /current/ keywords would be allowed either... I see.
>>
>> Anything that spells 'statement' is indeed going to meet with fierce resistance.
>>
>>>
>>> What of
>>>
>>> x := ( condition, true:=truevalue, false:=falsevalue);
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>> Apart from any parsing difficulties this may present, what is the benefit over
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>>   x:=condition ? truevalue : falsevalue
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>> The latter being the generally used one ?
>>
> That it's C, not Pascal ;) and, um. sorry I do not have a c spec on hand,
> does it really work that way in C - only evaluates truevalue or falsevalue not both?

I don't know about C (don't know if it actually has it?), 
but definitely in C++ and JavaScript

And please remember, we do not NEED this construct; the added value is marginal
as I indicated.

Simply not adding is an option. Not all change is necessarily progress.

Michael.