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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:58:56 +0100
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"G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid> writes:

> On 30.07.15 09:50, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
>> Simon Wright wrote:
>>>> Simon Wright wrote:
>>
>>>>>       return Tick * Time_Base ((if System.FreeRTOS.Tasks.In_ISR
>>>>>                                 then xTaskGetTickCountFromISR
>>>>>                                 else xTaskGetTickCount));
>>
>>> I dunno. The version below is quite verbose, and verges on being less
>>> readable. But this is a style issue, I think.
>>>
>>>        if System.FreeRTOS.Tasks.In_ISR then
>>>           return Tick * Time_Base (xTaskGetTickCountFromISR);
>>>        else
>>>           return Tick * Time_Base (xTaskGetTickCount);
>>>        end if;
>>
>> I definitely find the latter more readable than the former (at least
>> without syntax highlighting).
>
> We now have named conditional expressions, so
>
>   function GetTickCount return T
>      is ((if System.FreeRTOS.Tasks.In_Isr
>           then xTaskGetTickCountFromISR
>           else xTaskGetTickCount));
> begin
>    return Tick * Time_Base (GetTickCount);
> end

An interesting way to think of it! I _think_that in this case it's
getting a little too obfuscatory.