http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_Trunk#Comparative_operators_can_have_any_result_type

Is this a preparation for LINQ-like functionality?

http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_Trunk#True_and_False_are_not_keywords_anymore

With false and true being integer, how could it be used in an boolean-expression-expected context? e.g. if, while and until condition? Anyway, AFAIK classically Boolean is declared as enum:

type Boolean = (False,True);

leledumbo wrote

> http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_Trunk#Comparative_operators_can_have_any_result_type Is this a preparation for LINQ-like functionality?

Delphi compatibility. But as the example shows you could use it for LINQ-like functionality as well.

Delphi compatibility (or as is written for that entry: compatibility to other Pascal compilers in general). This won't have any negative impact on logical expressions. Also keep in mind that comparisons with "= True" could lead to wrong results anyway as "True" for Boolean and friends is "1" while "True" for ByteBool and friends is any non-zero value.

Regards,
Sven

This won't have any negative impact on logical expressions

I expect that. I suppose the compiler has a mechanism for this such that "if true then" would work.

leledumbo wrote

> This won't have any negative impact on logical expressions I expect that. I suppose the compiler has a mechanism for this such that "if true then" would work.

I haven't explicitely checked it nor looked at the code (no time currently), but it should either be covered by the usual type conversion system or indeed special code. If not that should be considered a bug and reported as such. ;)

Regards,
Sven