In our previous episode, Alexander Klenin said: > >> 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.
It is not, for the same reason all redundancy is not stripped from natural languages either. It improves reading speed and integrity at only a small cost. > They never did and probably never will They work perfectly fine. > (at least, I do not think there is a need to extend them, since a better > alternative, assignment operators, is already implemented). I don't see the need for them. I can see the logical ones being implemented for ease of conversion in e.g. compression code, but I never use them. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel