[fpc-pascal] Syntax changes suggestions

[R0b0t1]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Ryan Joseph <ryan at thealchemistguild.com> wrote:
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>> On Jul 18, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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You can make the function yourself. That you may have problems with
typing are indicative that the language could use a more expressive
type system, not that it was a good idea to create an intrinsic that
could (potentially) ignore types.

Cheers,
     R0b0t1