[fpc-pascal] Syntax changes suggestions

[Ryan Joseph]

> On Jul 18, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> And to give you a slightly different example: around a year ago or so I implemented a IfThen() intrinsic that works like the if-statement, but as an expression (like C's trinary ?: operator including not evaluating the branch not taken). The majority of the users seemed to like it, but reasons against it surfaced and so I reverted it again.
> 

That’s pretty disheartening honestly. So there was a useful feature users could be leveraging but it was turned down because it didn’t fit into some paradigm or something like that. Sorry to hear that.

Since I’ve been using FPC in 2003-2004 the language has never forced any of its new features on me and I can still program Pascal like I did when I started in the 90’s. Forcing me to use features is where my line is crossed but I struggle to understand why we’re withholding good ideas from users to this extent.

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph