On 06/08/2010 16:21, Alexander Klenin wrote:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 01:50, Martin<f...@mfriebe.de> wrote:
On 06/08/2010 15:45, Alexander Klenin wrote:
I don't have a problem with "a mod b" => only with "a mod= b"
mod is a keyword, it therefore follows the rule (as identifier) that it
consists of certain chars only (a-z, underscore, digits, but not leading)
:= += are symbols => they do not consist of said chars
mod= is what exactly?
Whatever you would like it to be ;-)
Really, I can see how it may require a special case in the tokenizer,
but apart from that, who cares?
> From the syntax highlighting POV, it should IMO be a symbol,
like "mod" and "div".
It's not about implementation in the fpc parser/compiler, or syntax
highlighter => you can implement any such thing...
But it's breaking the fundamentals of pascal, to differentiate between
symbol and identifiers.
Obviously it acts like a symbol does, so it should be a symbol; but if
symbol can have chars, then why can't identifiers have $+-...
If we give up this barrier, then surely the following should be valid to?
var a$b: Integer;
symbols may need to be surrounded by spaces always, since I also would
want an identifier/variable named
var a+b : integer;
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if there should be a shorthand for "a:=a mod b" => ok => but please make
it look like pascal.
Either inc style, or symbol style. maybe use "%=" (and "::=" for div
(first ":" =divide))
I don't say I like those, but "mod=" is just the worst I can imagine.
Martin
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