On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 00:51, Marc Weustink <marc.weust...@cuperus.nl> wrote: > > Note that there is a tiny little difference between those two. > > the ?: operator evaluates either the TruePart or FalsePart while IfThen will > evaluate both parts first.
Exactly. This is why for me IfThen is much less useful then conditional operators in other languages. I think a better alternative would be Algol-like if-expression: a := (if x > 0 then x else -x); -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
