[Lazarus] clarification / Re: constant-highlight ? [Re: quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting "case"]

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Duncan Parsons schrieb:

> Their chosen style for if/elseif/else was:
> if x then begin
>   code
> end else if y then begin
>   code
> end else begin
>   code
> end;

This is my preferred style as well, with the least line count.

> Which I found to be as helpful as a ice teapot, as scanning down you see one if with three ends and no context for what was happening in between..

It's equivalent to a case statement, where only one of multiple branches 
is taken at any time.

It also is compatible with languages that deserve no additional 
begin-end brackets (Modula...). I'm still waiting for an fpc front-end 
for that simplified syntax, which needs no further discussion about the 
placement of the added begins and ends, increases readability by their 
omission, reduces code size and speeds up compilation once more.

We'll never come to an agreement about *the* best representation, unless 
evitable begin-end pairs have been removed from the syntax.

The only other solution were a formatter that allows to flip between all 
the styles, and means to convert to some fixed (SVN) repository style 
before an commit or patch creation.

DoDi