> Sounds like a personal problem to me. Or he's using a prettyprinter that can't handle it well.
> Or, you could use ELSEIF and just not indent. PL/I has no such statement; with SELECT there's no further need for it. > I wish ITERATE I and LEAVE I allowed I to be an EXPOSEd nonlocal variable. Controlling the loop from a subroutine outside the loop sounds extremely error prone. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 11:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please [was: RE: ASM call by value] 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
