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and then

Synopsis

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

Description

and then is an alias for the short-circuit logical operator and_then.

Conforming to

While and_then is defined in ISO 10206 Extended Pascal, and then is a GNU Pascal extension.

Example

     program AndThenDemo;
     var
       p: ^Integer;
     begin
       New (p);
       ReadLn (p^);
       if (p <> nil) and then (p^ < 42) then  { This is safe. }
         WriteLn (p^, ' is less than 42')
     end.

See also

Keywords, and_then, and, or else.