On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:37:36 -0800 (PST), Judy Perry
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mark,
Right, again, my argument was less "IF-THENs rule and CASE-SWITCHes
suck"
than IF-THENs are easier to read/learn/are more transparent for
non/novice-programmers.
Just to add a tiny footnote to this: Judy, how would you tackle a
situation where a user (or a handler) can put in say a number from 1
to 50, and each of those numbers requires the program to carry out a
different action? It wouldn't really be feasible to have a depth of
50 if-then-elses, so if you want to stick to a simple sequential
model, either you'd have to use a switch (case) statement, or
alternatively a structure like a handler 'myHandler' containing 50
statements like:
if my parameter = 33 then
doMyThirtyThirdThing
exit myHandler
end if
which - to me - looks pretty much the same in terms of transparency.
I guess this horse is pretty well dead by now.
Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France
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