RE: Two persons per product"

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Brad Jensen discussed coding standards, and Martin chimed in:


>  >  no single line IFs.
>
>Everything else you said made sense, but I've never heard of this as
>being bad practice.  What's the problem?
>
>Unless you mean something like (in Java, but no doubt VB has its
>equivalent):
>
>       if ( someCondition() ) performSomeFunction();
>
>instead of
>
>       if ( someCondition() )
>       {
>               performSomeFunction();
>       }
>


I've usually used the multi-line form, especially in CL:

        IF (something goes here) THEN(DO)
                Function1
                Function2
                Function3
        ENDDO
        ELSE DO
                etc.
        ENDDO

I tend to use the DO/ENDDO even for a single Function.  Mainly
because programs have  a way of growing; more times than I'd care to
admit, that single Function becomes 2, then 3, and I'd have to
re-arrange to use the DO anyway.

Do the DO!

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.nospam.com