[fpc-pascal] Syntax changes suggestions

[Sven Barth]

R0b0t1 <r030t1 at gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 18. Juli 2018, 21:46:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Ryan Joseph <ryan at thealchemistguild.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> 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.
> >
>
> You can make the function yourself.


You can't, because the main point of the intrinsic was that the parameter
that was in the branch not taken was not evaluated at all just like with
the if-statement. Normal function calls will always evaluate the
parameters.

Regards,
Sven

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