Am 10.10.2015 10:51 schrieb "Mark Morgan Lloyd" < markmll.fpc-de...@telemetry.co.uk>: > > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> >> On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, Sven Barth wrote: >> >> >>>> >>>> I'm not sure this kind of semantics is possible with a compiler >>> >>> intrinsic... >>>> >>>> But if it is: In that case the IfThen or IIF() or somesuch has my >>> >>> absolute top preference, followed by ternary. (and the If .. then >>> expression should be blasted to hell ;) ) >>> >>> Yes a compiler intrinsic could handle that. In the end all three syntaxes >>> are the same code representation anyway: namely an if-node. >>> The IfThen() intrinsic would be fine with me as well. Let's call this our >>> common ground ;) >> >> >> >> Agreed ! > > > It would be even better if it could be generalised to evaluate and return one of any number of expressions.
How do you think that could look like? IfThen() is the wrong intrinsic for this and for a CaseOf() intrinsic you'd nevertheless need the case labels. And /then/ I agree with Ralf that it isn't understandable... Regards, Sven
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