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{ `or else' is built in. A user-defined operator cannot consist of two words. } operator or else (operand1, operand2: Boolean) = Result: Boolean;
or else
is an alias for the short-circuit logical operator
or_else
.
While or_else
is defined in ISO 10206 Extended Pascal,
or else
is a GNU Pascal extension.
program OrElseDemo; var a: Integer; begin ReadLn (a); if (a = 0) or else (100 div a > 42) then { This is safe. } WriteLn ('100 div a > 42') end.