On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 19:06, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> wrote: > In our previous episode, Alexander Klenin said: >> C-like operators reduce the number of required punctuation -- >> I always think that the extra punctuation is bad for readability. [..] > punctuation is not even 100% required to understand natural language.
Correct. That is why reducing it to a required minimum is a good thing. >> As for multiplication, floating-point and overloaded cases, >> they are simply required since Inc and Dec do not work at all. > > inc and dec work fine as far as I know for over a decade. Hm, just re-checked -- no, they do not. They never did and probably never will (at least, I do not think there is a need to extend them, since a better alternative, assignment operators, is already implemented). -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
