On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/2015 10:47 AM, Sven Barth wrote: > >> > var A := SomeClassInstance.SomeFunction; >> >> While I agree that type inference /might/ be useful I don't agree with >> inline variable declarations. One of the main points of Pascal is declare >> before use. >> >> +100 > > Things like this is just because people are trying to be lazy, not because > this does improve code (human readable or otherwise). > Someone who is trying to use a construct like the one mentioned above is > nothing but lazy, is not properly designing his/her software. And that is > against what Pascal should stand for. > Humans miss a lot of times a third hand, but this isn't likely to happen > that we grow one anytime soon. So get used to properly using what you > have... > > Ralf > > Ralf, I guess I'm talking about losing the third hand and join all the other languages with two hands (so, minus the var block before begin :-) ). This is not about being lazy, but about being less verbose. Or in other words shorter text which is more expressive and more readable.
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