In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > After the discussion last year about the inline-if I've decided to add > it as an intrinsic function instead of an extension of the language. > Like all intrinsics it's part of the System unit and "declared" like this: > > === code begin === > > function IfThen(Condition: Boolean; ThenExpr, ElseExpr: type): type; > > === code end === > > Since it's declared in the System unit it won't interfere with the > IfThen()s that are declared in the Math unit or other units, so they'll > continue to work as before to avoid any surprises. > > An important point to note is that in general the result type is > determined by the ThenExpr (there are a few usability exceptions > regarding strings and chars).
I'm not really fond of the functionality, and I would not write new code with it, but it is very handy when converting C code. The only really bad thing is the name, as Florian already said, with the versions in strutils and math. The clash with delphi compatible functions should be avoided. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
