I've never written in one of those languages, but while I don't feel that way
about DO and END -- maybe because they're text, not one-character symbols -- I
kind of see what you're getting at. By habit, though, I'd probably write it
the same way I do it in REXX:
if (something == 10) {
run some stuff;
run more stuff;}
In other words, I'm letting the indentation tell my eyes what I need to know,
and it's up to me to make sure the indentation accurately reflects the actual
syntax.
But maybe if I wrote in C for a while I'd come around to your way of thinking.
I don't want Mr Metz to think me a traitor, but in C style I can feel the force
of your example.
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tom
Brennan
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 12:24
Side track to logic blocks: I like matching up indentations on the do/end
instead of if/end. And the same in C-style languages such as:
if (something == 10)
{
run some stuff;
run more stuff;
}
But almost all code I see in the world (other than my own) does this:
if (something == 10) {
run some stuff;
run more stuff;
}
That just confuses me when I need to match up the brackets or do/end's.
--- On 6/18/2021 9:12 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> I agree, although if I expect to be adding code in the future then
> I'll write
>
> if fx then do
> ntim=ntim+1
> end
> else do
> nres=nres+1
> end
>
> Note that I don't like, and don't use in REXX scripts, the C indentation
> conventions; I indent END.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Bob Bridges [[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 11:57 AM
>
> Ack! To my mind
>
> if fx then
> do
> ntim=ntim+1
> end
> else
> do
> nres=nres+1
> end
>
> ...is much harder to read than
>
> if fx then ntim=ntim+1
> else nres=nres+1
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Crawford, Robert C.
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 09:23
>
> It's a small thing, but I now longer try to cram as much code into
> line as I can. Now I put spaces between operators and variables and
> after commas. I also put the clauses following "THEN" and "ELSE" on another
> line.
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