-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 16:12:56 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd (markmll.fpc-de...@telemetry.co.uk) wrote about "Re: [fpc-devel] new features and facilities" (in <mv64m9$95v$1...@pye-srv-01.telemetry.co.uk>):
> Ondrej Pokorny wrote: > > As Michael has said, adding an extra else or for that matter > otherwise would be a problem. > >> And what about the inline if? That should be backwards compatible >> at a first glance. And it would be a fun thing because the Delphi >> community has asked for it for many years and Embarcadero looks >> like they won't add it at all :) > > Inline if is an ALGOL feature, and it's inexplicable why it's never > been in Pascal. Indeed, it is even more succinct in C/C++: x = <boolean> ? <then part> : <else part>; This was taken directly from ALGOL 60 and remains a very elegant feature. However, Jensen & Wirth excluded it from the original Pascal Report. - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* david.w.n...@googlemail.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlYWnHkACgkQogYgcI4W/5R5IwCgz5RvrROIZn26Pn1u1flRIBKH mIUAn3gyUm9TdTglLkQdYjiI26lSg6ye =HFIP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
