On 17.03.2013 11:07, Luca Olivetti wrote:
Al 17/03/13 03:37, En/na Flávio Etrusco ha escrit:
unfortunate, because IMO the 'with' syntax is one of the most
abominable un-pascal things Borland introduced in the language, and
*forcing* the AS syntax (but probably with some other keyword like
ALIAS) would make it much more palatable.
I checked on google books and it doesn't seem to be a Borland addition
http://books.google.es/books?hl=ca&id=mHSZRZnDp60C&q=with#search_anchor
Texas Instruments' Pascal had an extension of the with statement, IIRC
it used = instead of AS
With a=VeryLongNameForARecord, b=AnotherRecordWithAVeryLongName do ...
Now THAT is really unpascalish... either ":=" or the already suggested
"as"...
Regards,
Sven
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