[fpc-pascal] Syntax changes suggestions

Santiago A. svaa at ciberpiula.net
Tue Jul 17 10:22:48 CEST 2018


El 17/07/2018 a las 10:11, Marco van de Voort escribió:
> In our previous episode, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal said:
>>> interested in why it is not supported.
>> At least Delphi Tokyo (10.2) does not support it.
>>
>> If I remember the discussion correctly it came to light that some users
>> would need "try ? finally ? except ? end" while others would need "try ?
>> except ? finally ? end" and even some "try ? finally ? except ? finally
>> ? end" or the like. With differences in opinion like this the idea was
>> dropped, cause this flexibility exists already, namely by using separate
>> blocks.
> And since the feature is implementable as an IDE macro (generating a nested
> try except/finally) it doesn't make Ooccam's razor of usefulness to begin
> with.
The Occam's razor is that if it is so usefull that a macro is used a 
lot, why not make it part of the languages avoiding depending on 
external tools?

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Saludos

Santiago A.




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