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-----Message d'origine-----
De : rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Charles Wilt
Envoyé : vendredi 12 novembre 2010 15:26
À : RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Objet : Re: How to read and or statement

I disagree....

Sometimes my path depends on seemingly unrelated things...

I want both forms to work.


On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:21 AM, David FOXWELL
<David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And MUCH nicer than :

SELECT;
 WHEN Customer.Type = 'A';
   ...
 WHEN Customer.Type = 'B' or
      Customer.Type = 'C' or
      Customer.type = 'D';
   ...
 WHEN SomethingThatHasNothingToDoWithCustomer.Slipper = 'E';
   ...
 OTHER;
   ...
ENDSL;

Which would no longer compile :-)


Charles, I am surprised as you are such an advocate for self-documenting code. Such a SELECT group would be difficult to follow without comments. Dare I say impossible, looking at the above example.

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