[fpc-pascal] IfThen() intrinsic removed
Giuliano Colla
giuliano.colla at fastwebnet.it
Fri Feb 5 12:11:44 CET 2016
Il 05/02/2016 10:58, Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto:
> 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.
+1
C philosophy is to save *typing* time. Pascal philosophy is to save
*development* time. Typing is but a small fraction of development.
Attempts to save typing usually end up in making the code less readable,
and therefore harder to debug, to maintain, to share between developers,
etc.
Just my 2 c.
Giuliano
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