Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel <[email protected]> schrieb am Di., 2. Sep. 2025, 14:28:
> > > On Tue, 2 Sep 2025, Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote: > > > Hairy Pixels via fpc-devel <[email protected]> schrieb am > Di., > > 2. Sep. 2025, 09:50: > > > >> On Sep 1, 2025 at 3:44:17 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-devel < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> You're more likely to see things like: > >>> > >>> a := if x > 10 then 1 else -1; > >>> > >>> instead of > >>> > >>> if x > 10 then > >>> a := 1 > >>> else > >>> > >>> a := -1; > >>> > >>> > >> Yes I agree but in C-like languages I do use it in function parameters > >> just as often. Still feeling like IfThen if made a real intrinsic would > be > >> most readable and Pascal-like. Since this new expression exists now > making > >> the intrinsic would be extremely trivial. > >> > > > > It doesn't matter whether it's trivial or not. An IfThen() intrinsic > would > > have a different behavior from *any* other function-like element and thus > > would be a bad idea. Thus there will be *no* auch intrinsic. > > I don't think this is a good argument: > > Write(), Writeln, WriteStr and Str() are also intrinsics with "different > behaviour" from all other function, intrinsic or not: > > The : formatting for one, and some arbitrarily limited varargs-like > behaviour for another. > > Yet these are firmly entrenched in pascal. > > So at least on these grounds, the IfThen() has as much reason for > existence as these > "real pascal" functions, in my opinion. > But that's also not a reason that there should be more intrinsics that behave different from normal functions. Also none of these you mentioned have a behavior like the IfThen() intrinsic would have and some people might not even know that the parameters can be adjusted with the ":" syntax (or even if they do they might not need to use it; I don't know when I last used that for example), but for IfThen() that is a core part of the behavior. Regards, Sven >
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