On 17.03.2013 15:29, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 17 Mar 2013, at 15:02, Luca Olivetti wrote:
Al 17/03/13 13:54, En/na Marco van de Voort ha escrit:
In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
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"...
Since it is a pseudo variable declaration, I would assume VAR syntax and
just use ":" ?
That would be consistent with "On E:Exception do writeln(E.message)".
No, because "On E: Exception" says that "E" is of the type "Exception",
just like in a variable declaration the expression after the colon also
identifies the type. Here it's not about defining the type, but about
making a symbol equivalent to repeating a non-type expression. So "="
from symbolic constant declarations would probably be closest. I think
":=" is less good, because ":=" implies that a copy or an assignment is
made rather than an equivalence is defined, and hence changes to that
copy could be assumed lost afterwards in case of records or objects,
which would not be the case.
As I just wrote in another mail: what about "absolute". It might read
strange at first with a more complicated expression on the right hand
side, but it would express the concept of "this refers to the same".
Regards,
Sven
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