On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote:
On 10/12/2015 03:43 PM, Martin Frb wrote:
Actually the above does not represent what the actual feature request is
about
The "else" is to be executed, after the while (even if the while looped
ZERO
times).
But it is to be skipped if the while exited via break (and only then).
For that reason "else" or "otherwise" are badly chosen keywords. Because
they
imply a different function.
exactly my and others' points... "and" would be better but then one might
just as easily use a goto to jump around that part if break was used to get
out of the loop...
anyway, it seems that no matter what the discussion, it won't make it into
the compiler... that according to another post from a compiler dev ;)
Maybe my remark was not clear.
I'm not against this *functionality*.
I merely pointed out that *the syntax using 'else'*
is not going to make it because it breaks backwards compatibility.
If another keyword is used: no problem.
I don't understand why anyone would want this marginal functionality and thus
(again) needlessly complicates the language, but hey, it's a (mostly) free world....
Alas, the monstrosity that Object Pascal syntax is becoming is less and less
appealing by the day, it's simply frightening...
Michael.
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