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or else

Synopsis


{ `or else' is built in. A user-defined operator cannot consist of
   two words. }
operator or else (operand1, operand2: Boolean) = Result: Boolean;

Description

or else is an alias for the short-circuit logical operator or_else.

Conforming to

While or_else is defined in ISO 10206 Extended Pascal, or else is a GNU Pascal extension.

Example


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.

See also

Keywords, or_else, or, and then.