> On Jul 18, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
> <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> And to give you a slightly different example: around a year ago or so I
> implemented a IfThen() intrinsic that works like the if-statement, but as an
> expression (like C's trinary ?: operator including not evaluating the branch
> not taken). The majority of the users seemed to like it, but reasons against
> it surfaced and so I reverted it again.
>
That’s pretty disheartening honestly. So there was a useful feature users could
be leveraging but it was turned down because it didn’t fit into some paradigm
or something like that. Sorry to hear that.
Since I’ve been using FPC in 2003-2004 the language has never forced any of its
new features on me and I can still program Pascal like I did when I started in
the 90’s. Forcing me to use features is where my line is crossed but I struggle
to understand why we’re withholding good ideas from users to this extent.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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