----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 10:00 PM Subject: fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 68, Issue 28 > Send fpc-pascal mailing list submissions to > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of fpc-pascal digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: some new features to delphi prisem (J?rgen Hestermann) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:41:24 +0100 > From: J?rgen Hestermann > Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] some new features to delphi prisem > To: FPC-Pascal users discussions > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > >> y := case Other of >> bla : 'hello'; >> foo : 'bye'; >> baz : 'adius'; >> end; >> What do you gain with this? >> Doesn't look much different to >> case Other of >> bla : y := 'hello'; >> foo : y := 'bye'; >> baz : y := 'adius'; >> end; >> Shorter write imho. > > Is that realy a reason for adding yet another extension to Pascal? > This is C thinking. I don't care about a word more or less to write > if only the *reading* of source code is easy (and the logic of the > language is clear). But each variant in writing makes it harder to > understand a source code (especially for newbies to whom the > learning curve gets steeper and steeper with each of such 'extensions'). > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > > End of fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 68, Issue 28 > ****************************************** > >