On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Sven Barth wrote:
And modifying the scanner for this exception is a REALLY bad idea.
Maciej is in so far right that the intrinsic could indeed be named "if" and
the only way to call it would thus be by "&if", cause only then the scanner
would not treat "if" as a keyword. So it would work with what the compiler
currently can.
Then you preclude
Var
&if : Integer;
This is a really bad idea. The whole idea of & is to make the above
possible, so you are going to make an exception on an exception ?
You really want to create monstrosities as
&if:=system.&if(a>3,1,3) * b
Really guys, I know it is ugly, but we don't have to add to it even more;
Using & in a system intrinsic identifier: how crazy can you get ?
Sorry Maciej and Sven, but I will personally revert such a change,
and shut down the SVN server afterwards to boot so you have time to
calm down and get back to your senses. Get a holiday or so.
Michael.
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