In our previous episode, Maciej Izak said: > *the best new name for "IfThen intrinsic" is iif* > > unless someone has a good opposite arguments? Pros for iif: > > - no conflicts with existing RTL code base (in this matter much much better > than IfThen) > - compatible with existing pascal solution (Oxygene) > - short and logical name > > Cons: > - a little different behavior than in other languages (but still compatible > with Oxygene)
How is it different behaviour from C then? The only practical application that I see is in from C conversions (like ++ and --), so that you don't have to rethink complex expressions that some @($*@$ thought up. Of course one can find an use for any syntactic sugar, but then we should give up making a pascal, and simply declare FPC as the superset of all languages. > - I like &if ;) I don't see the point. And if a funky character is needed then use another one, don't add a third overload to &. (statement to intrinsic instead of statement to identifier and octal) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
