On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:38:50 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote:
>I suppose so, but I always use SELECT, never ELSEIF. I think it's because
>with ELSEIF I feel compelled to indent each clause as if it were an "ELSE IF",
>
Sounds like a personal problem to me.
>and I abominate those long increasingly indented constructions:
>
> if expr1 then stm1
> else if expr2 then stm2
> else if expr3 then do
> blah blah blah; end
> else if expr4 then stm4
> else if expr5 then stm5
>
>SELECT allows me to avoid that.
>
Or, you could use ELSEIF and just not indent.
I've seen some horribly hyperindented REXX code from IBM on CMS. Like:
IF ...
THEN
DO
yada
yada
END
I code:
IF ... THEN
THEN on the same line. Its only purpose is to terminate a boolean expression.
>I love the iterate statement for much the same reason:
>
Ir's a more disciplined alternative to GOTO.
I wish ITERATE I and LEAVE I allowed I to be an EXPOSEd nonlocal variable.
--
gil
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