On 05/02/16 09:48, Sven Barth wrote: > Am 05.02.2016 10:46 schrieb "Lukasz Sokol" <el.es...@gmail.com > <mailto:el.es...@gmail.com>>: >> >> On 05/02/16 09:22, Lukasz Sokol wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On 04/02/16 21:33, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: >> >> >> >>> Disappointed :( >> >> >> >> Well, such is life. I'm also disappointed that my bank account doesn't >> >> contain millions. But I learned to live with it :-) >> >> >> >> But all hope is not lost yet. >> >> >> >>> Why was it done? I thought that pretty much everyone was in favor? >> >> >> >> Not quite, form was also deemed important. It is a tricky balance. >> >> >> >> To recapitulate: >> >> >> >> There were various choices: >> >> >> >> a) not adding at all >> >> b) a ? b : c >> >> c) if a then b else c >> >> d) iif() (or some variant thereof) >> > >> > what of >> > e) some kind of assignment, requiring use of braces, e.g. >> > x := ( if condition then truevalue else flasevalue ); >> > or >> > x := ( condition then truevalue else falsevalue ); >> > >> > ... ? >> > >> > It also does not clash with function names, only reuses same keywords... >> >> An as reusing keywords is a no-no... >> >> I wrote x := ( condition, true := truevalue, false:=falsevalue); in previous >> email; >> but since true and false are constants (and reserved names) too, >> >> maybe, actually, a new keyword (pair) would be actually OK ? >> >> x := (condition; whentrue:=truevalue; whenfalse:=falsevalue); ? >> >> yes requiring use of assignment, braces, and assignments inside braces. > > You're butchering the language even more than if-then-else could have -.- >
I would have voted for if-then-else (in braces, of course) but Michael says no and I respect that... and Marco says single braces clash with dxgettext too much... or iif-ithen-ielse ? in double braces ... > Regards, > Sven > Kind Regards el es _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
