[fpc-pascal] IfThen() intrinsic removed

[LacaK]

Dňa 5.2.2016 o 11:50 Lukasz Sokol napísal(a):
> On 05/02/16 10:35, Andreas wrote:
>> On Fri 05/02/2016 07:49, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
>>> 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 wrote another one in another email, maybe actually having new keyword or 2 is ok ?
>>> and require it to be an assignment, like
>>>
>>> x := ( condition; whentrue:=true_value; whenfalse:=false_value);
>>>
>>> so syntactic sugar but not abusing function calls, but an assignment instead.
>>>
>> Well then how about: x *:=* *when* condition true_condition *otherwise* false_condition;
>>
>> How this is pascalish.
>>
> Smells, like perl or python... I almost wrote the 'when version' but... ;)
>
> without clear indication that a value is returned, it's like a statement...
>
> Any other imaginative way to indicate that a construct returns a value, other than using braces...?
> as 'just braces' will confuse people using _() a lot.
>
> (side note :
> x := (when condition use truevalue otherwise falsevalue);
It look s very strange to me.

Why not just reuse C:
   x := condition ? truevalue : falsevalue ;
As stated before.
May be only for {$COPERATORS ON}
(So it will not influence Pascal language, but for those who want use 
it, can enable this syntax using switch)
-Laco.