RE: Quick question on readability

Alan,

I agree that clarity is to be prefered.

Your construct has the additional advantage that you have minimal 
maintenance to do if one day you need to cater for Field1 = 'B' etc.

I always view over-complex, un-intuitive statements in programs as (job) 
security by obscurity.

Just my opinion of course.

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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It seems clear to me, I was delighted when I saw Guthrie's pointer on 
iseriesnetwork that you could do that. I might avoid it for the next guy, 
though, a lot of times I do things for clarity in maintenance.

Like: 

select 
when Field1 = 'A'
...do this....
when Field1 <> 'A'
...do something else...
endsl 

--Alan