Re: Advantages of RPG

Doug Palme wrote:

Could one also use a function / procedure such as:

Select;
When MyFunction() = 1;
Exsr Exitprocess;
EndSL;

which I believe would also work with either VB or C.......then again I do not recall ever having tested that......

Again, I am not disagreeing with you.....just making an observation :)

Your syntax above does not work in any Microsoft language. The closest you can get is this VB code:

myvalue = MyFunction()
Select Case myvalue
case 1
Exitprocess()
case 2 or 3
Process2Or3()
End Select


See Tommy's comment as well. VB's Select Case syntax is very primitive compared to RPG's SELECT. And C# is even worse; it's the original C switch statement.

Joe