[Pas2js] Prefix_&_support

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 15 May 2018, Ondrej Pokorny wrote:

> On 15.05.2018 13:01, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> See my first sentence.
>>
>> & represents an operator, namely to indicate octal numbers.
>>
>> begin
>>   writeln(&123);
>> end.
>>
>> Will write 83.
>
> True. I forgot about this one. But is & really an operator? 
> https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse84.html
> Isn't this a prefix (=a part of number or identifier) instead?:
> 1.) for numbers it means octal representation.
> 2.) for identifiers, keywords etc. it means it's an identifier
>
> I mean what is a dot (.) for you: a floating point separator or a class 
> operator?:
> 1.) 123.456
> 2.) abc.def
>
> Why should you not want to use the dot in the first or the second case 
> just because it is used in the second or the first case?
>
> Btw. if I am not mistaken numbers cannot be identifiers in JS. So no 
> chance to have an ambiguity here with "&123" being an identifier.

As said, I consider it a matter of preference. 
It's not because a certain technology exists that you must use it.

However, I can understand the argument about code completion, 
and henceforward I will use a suffix.

But I will not use & in APIs I translate.

You are of course free to do as you please, if you prefer to use &, 
be my guest :)

Michael.