Ralf Quint wrote:
On 10/8/2015 9:54 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
I had the idea to implement inline-if as well. I think the syntax I
selected is derived from Oxygene, but it looks very Pascal and
shouldn't break anything:
left := if expr1 then expr2 else expr3;
Thereby expr1 returns Boolean and expr2 determines the type of the
whole inline-if, thus expr3 needs to be compatible to expr2.
Sorry, but that doesn't "look Pascal" at all, and is anything but easily
understandable, specially given the possible complexity of expr[1,2,3]...
But at least in this instance there's /always/ an ELSE, so there's no
risk of apparent ambiguity due to "dangling else": a closing END or FI
isn't needed.
It's more difficult to argue for inline CASE, particularly since that
one might have optional ELSE or OTHERWISE.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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