[fpc-pascal] Generic type conflicts

[Ben Grasset]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 5:24 PM Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> Does this really work? Cause the compiler should nevertheless typecheck
> the code in the other branch and thus without casts that shouldn't compile.
> Also if it should indeed work, it would also work without the
> if-expression, but with an if-statement.
>

Hm, it actually doesn't quite for that particular example, testing it for
real. It definitely did for a few other generic things I experimented with
though (that were impossible otherwise.) I'll see if I can find the source
files anywhere.

Why would it work the same way as a normal if statement, though? Isn't the
non-evaluation of the false branch pretty much the only point of the
ternary "form"? E.G. you'd specifically use it when you had two branches
that you knew would never *both* be compilable.
You'd be able to do the same thing with an {$IFDEF}, for example, if
{$IFDEFS} specifically carried through across generic specializations.
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