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Blaazen

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Re: If ShortInt and Boolean then
« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2020, 04:42:06 pm »
It makes code more readable:
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  1. if something
  2. if something<>0
  3. if assigned(something)
It is obvious what type it is (boolean/number/pointer) without looking to declaration or hovering the identifier.

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Re: If ShortInt and Boolean then
« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2020, 05:46:05 pm »
That sounds good but my Source Editor's status bar is already crowded. Also, similarly but less informatively the information can be shown using ctrl+space.

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Re: If ShortInt and Boolean then
« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2020, 05:55:40 pm »
if not for anything else that keeps getting rejected..

The helpers for types could at least have a default to them...

so for an integer.Default = (self <> 0);

StringHelper.Default= (self <> '');

etc
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Re: If ShortInt and Boolean then
« Reply #18 on: October 20, 2020, 09:48:24 am »
Don't let anyone like jamie ever touch the language and the compiler, as once given, it's a step forward towards having truthy and falsy values and rules (hello, PHP! Python! JavaScript! And everyone else with this stupidity!) that make boolean evaluation complex to implement, understand and memorize.

Don't worry, before we let people touch the compiler themselves we require them to show that they can produce code that's dedicated to the correct spirit of Pascal.

The helpers for types could at least have a default to them...

so for an integer.Default = (self <> 0);

StringHelper.Default= (self <> '');

No, because something like that would lead to just as much confusion for both the user and the compiler.

 

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