Re: MI as the MI language of the as400.

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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 18:15:54 EDT
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Subject: Re: [MI400] MI as the MI language of the as400.

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:40:50 -0500 "Leif Svalgaard" wrote:
. . .
> if a>0;
then b=1; else b=2;

Actually (and I've looked up the BNF grammar for PL/I),
there isn't a semicolon
after the condition. The "then" is, though, required
(at least according to the
BNF grammar I found; I don't remember it being
that way), just as it is in most
BASIC dialects and derivatives; in C, Java,
and the ALGOLs (including Pascal),
there isn't a "then," but the condition
must be in parentheses (I like the
"then" better, myself). Fortran, of
course, has the old logical and numeric IF
statements that didn't take a
THEN, and the (Fortran 77?) IF THEN ELSE

statement.

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