Re: single Line If stateement

While writing terse statements may save time, I personally don't use that style because it's not as readable to the naked eye if you have a bunch of those stacked together.

More lines of code to write it out, perhaps, but more readable definitely.

And I also document intent with comments as well to help out the uninitiated. That helped me a lot when I was the only maintainer for more than 10 products.

Better than hearing that old argument: "The code tells you what it does" and then looking at my own code and going WTF 😊

Code style is a non-winnable argument because we all think we do it the best.

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Richard Schoen
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date: Sun, 6 Sep 2020 15:48:16 +0200
from: Carel <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: single Line If stateement

Write your ow subprocedure, because that is what iIf actually is.

So, yes, possible in RPG on any OS level.


Op 6-9-2020 om 15:27 schreef Alan Campin:

Years ago, a boss of mine did something like this

If Identity = Yes:'Y':'N';

which doesn't compile.

I found an article on by Ted Holt defining a function iif where he did
this

Identity = iIf(InIdentity:YES:NO);

I suspect this is what my boss was using.

Is there a way to do this directly in RPG, V7R3 release level?