On 2 Jan 2001, at 5:34, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
First of all: Happy New Millennium! :-)
Happy New Millenium from down under (we saw it first! but as usual, I slept through the Sydney fireworks ...).
Peter and I are discussing the possibility of including some kind of conditional operator, like `foo ? bar : baz' in C. Since GPC uses GCC's backend, this should be easy to do semantically, the main question is about syntax:
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I have read the various comments about the Algol60 syntax - that is as good as any other. But like one of the other respondents, I am a bit concerned about compatibility with other Pascal compilers. This can of course be tempered by making sure that the new thing is rejected when other a switch for any other "standard" (e.g., BP, Delphi, EP, etc) is used, or perhaps, better still, to require a {$gnu-pascal} directive before it can be used. Does this make sense?
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