Sven Barth wrote:
On 01.02.2016 20:33, Marcos Douglas wrote:
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:06 PM, David Butler <djbut...@gmail.com> wrote:
Speaking personally, the reason why I like Pascal syntax over C is exactly
because it isn't short. I prefer the verbosity of Pascal rather than
"cryptic" syntax of the C family. e.g. Pascal uses "function" not "func",
"procedure" not "proc", "if then else" not "if ()", etc. Using short C-like
syntax in Pascal goes against the long established style of Pascal.
+1
IMHO we can't use "IfThen" (or iif, IfThenElse, etc) as if it were a
real function, because it is not.
So, according to the "spirit of Pascal, what do you think about this?
V := inline If Condition then ThenExpr else ElseExpr;
Only "inline" keyword will be introduced.
But I don't know if will be more hard to implement this.
If we would go the route of such an if-expression instead of an
intrinsic then just leave away the "inline". That's absolutely not
needed... (Note: implementation wouldn't be hard at all)
And it does have to be said that ALGOL had that construct.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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