C to Delphi

From: Bob Richardson (bobrNO_at_SPAMhidbey.com)
Date: 03/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:25:59 -0800

I've had good success in this project. The approach I've used is to
gradually change the C code to look more like Delphi. In particular this
meant converting many of the "for" statement to "while" statements. Once I
had dumbed down the C, I then converted it, pretty much line for line, into
Delphi, but with as much typecasting as possible. Of course there are lots
of little "gotchas" - like:

const
  alpha = 'abcd'
in C the 'a' is in alpha[0] while it's in alpha[1] in Pascal.

I presume that 0x8000 in C = $8000 in Pascal.

I think I'm down to just this one question.

The following C line:

   if (success ? !(PlayNS(player)) : PlayNS(player))
     {

was converted to

      if success then
        success := not PlayNS(player)
      else
        success := PlayNS(player);
      if success then
      begin

BUT THIS DOESN'T WORK. note: PlayNS returns a boolean.

How should I translate
   if (success ? !(PlayNS(player)) : PlayNS(player))

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