On Aug 24, 2025 at 3:28:45 PM, Karoly Balogh via fpc-devel < fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> The new syntax has strong Python vibes to me. This is where I saw/used > this the most. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. My code is usually > very oldschool and I tend to avoid most of the "modern" bells & whistles, > as I have a firm belief they hinder long-term maintainability, or they're > simply eye-sore (mainly that Delphi inline variable declaration comes to > mind) but this is one of the "newschool" syntax things which I'd gladly > use myself. > I think they added a IfThen generic which can be implicitly specialized now so you can do things like: s := IfThen(p <> nil, 'valid', 'nil’); vs s := If p <> nil then 'valid' else 'nil'; It’s almost easier to read. I’m not sure I’d like the have if-statements confused with expressions when scanning code either. At least the C version is more terse but that one can be hard to identify also. All in all I think IfThen is actually pretty good.
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