RE: Quick question on readability

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
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Subject: RE: Quick question on readability
Adam Glauser wrote:

var1   = (eval var2 = value)

That little eval is rather important, and I'm in agreement as well that 
this is not something that should be used frequently.

Roger Harman wrote on 13/12/2006 02:11:19 PM:

Or maybe not used at all.  The nested eval is not all intuitive.  I'll
take repetitive lines of code over that any day.

From the classic  "The Elements of Programming Style"..

   Write clearly - don't be too clever

I agree.  The only reason I could see to use the nested structure is that 
it might save a few cycles.  Sometimes that is the case with similar 
constructs in C.  Of course, if you really need uber-efficiency that 
badly, C is probably a better bet anyway.