I do not like ^

[anis2505]

For someone like me coming from the Curly Brackets World If I have to choose the ^ symbol and the PtrtoVal I would choose ^ which BTW I don't like it.

You can tell a person is integrated into a programming language when he starts making suggestion about how it should be changed.
You can tell a person has been using the language forever when he says to people making thos suggestions that there's a good reason why the original way was chosen.

Just joking

It's a game of power:

Lazarus/FreePascal native users vs Delphi native users vs C and it's descendant native users.

regards.

[eny]

Lets get rid of all these annoying symbols and tokens:

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1.   a = b plus  c;
2.   a = b minus c;
3.   a = b times c;
4.   a = b divided by c;

[BigChimp]

Or Java style:

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  a = b.plus(c);
  a = b.minus(c);
  a = b.times(c);
  a = b.dividedby(c);


[BeniBela]

Read this, Niklaus Wirth never invented Pascal with caret as the pointer dereference operator, it's our current keyboard that doesn't have the required symbol.

But now fpc supports unicode  files.

So let us change it to:

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var x: ↑word;

Strangel,y I couldn't find the intended symbol for @ in that pdf

Or Java style:

Code: [Select]

  a = b.plus(c);
  a = b.minus(c);
  a = b.times(c);
  a = b.dividedby(c);


With the ability to throw a null pointer exception on every operator usage

[Fred vS]

@ Eny

  a = b plus  c;
  a = b minus c;
  a = b times c;
  a = b divided by c;

No, no, no , it should be : in Pascal-Esperanto (why use English ?)

  a egala b pli c;
  a egala b malpli c;
  a egala b tempo c;
  a egala b dividita c;

[edit] Or, better

  a egala b pli c  punktokomo
  a egala b malpli c punktokomo
  a egala b tempo c punktokomo
  a egala b dividita c punktokomo

[anis2505]

Or windev style

Windev english Wlang
one variable

Code: [Select]

X is an integer
multiple variables

Code: [Select]

X, y are integers

Windev french Wlang
one variable

Code: [Select]

X est un entier

multiple variable

Code: [Select]

X, y sont des entiers

can you believe this. it's a nightmare

[marcov]

Lets get rid of all these annoying symbols and tokens:

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1.   a = b plus  c;
2.   a = b minus c;
3.   a = b times c;
4.   a = b divided by c;

and don't forget  that - has two meanings:

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1.   a := minus a;
2.  

The ambiguity can be finally lifted!

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1.   a:= unaryminus a;
2.  

[Leledumbo]

Strangel,y I couldn't find the intended symbol for @ in that pdf

There's no address of operator in original Pascal, I don't really remember when it was added, UCSD maybe?

[greatUnknown]

Looks like this thread is calling for a return to the original Cobol.

[cst_zf]

mode delphi will help a lot.

[marcov]

Strangel,y I couldn't find the intended symbol for @ in that pdf

There's no address of operator in original Pascal, I don't really remember when it was added, UCSD maybe?

I think later in TP.

UCSD was a VM, (Java's was later modeled after it), and fairly "safe" (in the Java/.NET sense) and  not terribly strong in random pointer access.

 

[eny]

I think later in TP.

For TP it was introduced with version 4.0
It is in my TP 4.0 manual, not in my TP 3.0 manual