Re: Question about Delphi versus other languages

From: Alf Christophersen (alf.christophersen_at_basalmed.uio.no)
Date: 10/14/04 

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:39:46 +0200

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:20:08 +0100, Dr John Stockton
<spam@merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>IMHO, for example, it should contrast, for constants B & C,
> * if A then x := B else x := C ;
> * const Z : array [boolean] of ... = (B, C) ; ... x := Z[A] ;
> * function Q(const a : boolean) : ... ;
> begin if a then Q := B else Q := C end ; ... x := Q(A) ; .

In Simula 56 there was a construct I often miss in Pascal
;

A:= If B then C else D;

MyDecidedValue := If B then
begin
  if E then {C part}
    5
  else
    10
end
else
begin {D part}
  if F then
    15
  else
    20;
end;

etc.