On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > Ryan Joseph <r...@thealchemistguild.com> schrieb am Mi., 18. Juli 2018, > 21:37: >> >> >> >> > 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. > > > Due to it essentially being an overload of IfThen in the Math unit there was > the possibility of confusion not to mention that it would be the only > function like construct that would not evaluate all parameters. When I'm > going to add it again I'm probably going the Oxygen route and use an > if-expression enabled with a modeswitch 🤷♀️ > > >> 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. > > > The problem with any language feature is this: even if I don't use it > someone else will and I'll sooner or later have to read such code. So in > that sense any language feature is forced upon everyone. >
To go along with this, as it is all of the dialects of Pascal supported by FPC make for a difficult to understand language interface. Some of the "open" "standards" supported have very warty featuresets already. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
