On 01.02.2016 21:02, silvioprog wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com > <mailto:pascaldra...@googlemail.com>> wrote: > > On 01.02.2016 20:33, Marcos Douglas wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:06 PM, David Butler <djbut...@gmail.com > <mailto: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) > > > When you format this code (e.g using Ctrl+D) the result is a very ugly > syntax: > > var > S: string; > B: Boolen = True; > begin > S := > if B then > 'A' > else > 'B'; > end; > > And I think that it breaks compatibility with many Pascal syntax > beautifier. IMHO Iif() (or something like this) sounds better.
I honestly don't care about syntax beautifiers, like at all. Most are already broken for ObjFPC anyway. Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
