On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:16:56 +0000, Robert Prins wrote: >> w ..., and IBM rejected the original SHARE >> requirement for a CASE statement. > >But the SELECT statement that they added (before my time) later beats the >crap out of CASE in C & Pascal. > Pascal CASE may have a performance advantage if it can be implemented with an indexed branch table. But how much does it matter?
Isn't SELECT (I know Rexx, not PL/I) just an ELSEIF chain? Too many languages lack ELSEIF and strong closure. Fie on the danglig ELSE! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
