Hairy Pixels via fpc-devel <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am Di., 26. Aug. 2025, 09:53:
> 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. > As said IfThen evaluates both sides no matter the result of the expression. The if-expression will not. Thus is a very important difference. Also there *will* be the if-then-expression, the question is only when the merge request is finalized enough (I currently can't check, so I can't comment on any progress there). Regards, Sven >
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