Re: How to read and or statement

Personally I can't understand why anyone would want to use the fixed format coding style any more. There is just too much advantage to free format. I don't see all that many differences. Instead of Factor1 Opcode Factor2 Result you write Opcode Factor1 Factor2 Result, and it can go anywhere on the line. You can indent to show looping, some of the opcodes have better alternatives, complex logic is more readable due to the formatting freedom that free form gives you. If ... elseif ... else ... end is definitely worth wile.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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From: Booth Martin
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Date: 11/11/2010 02:23PM
Subject: Re: How to read and or statement

If a programmer is going to consider going from IFxx to If, shouldn't he
take a real quick look at IfElse?  Wouldn't that be a really big part of
the attitude shift in the thought process?

Booth Martin
www.martinvt.com

On 11/11/2010 1:01 PM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. wrote:

That wouldn't work because it would keep on looping as long as the second when passed, totally ignoring the first part of the AND condition.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx