Re: Stopping processing with using a bunch of if statements

I added an idea:

https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-3980
comments in the "idea" are welcome.


Bryan




mlazarus wrote on 2/26/2024 10:23 PM:

Barbara,

  Can you make it happen?? :-)

  -mark

On 2/26/2024 7:15 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:

On 2024-02-20 12:21 p.m., mlazarus wrote:

  I wish that RPG had a "CONTINUE" type of function within the SELECT block, so that if I do want it to go to the next condition it would do that.

  -mark

Me too.

I do like the C/Java feature where it will continue with the next case, but I dislike the way it defaults to that. I always put a "fall through" comment in my C code where there would be a "break" if I want it to continue to the next case. But it's annoying to have to carefully study code with a missing break when there's no comment about intentionally continuing.

switch (x)
{
case 1:
  dosomething();
  // fall through to next case
case 2:
  doSomethingElse();
  break;
...
}

So for those occasions where it would be useful for SELECT to continue with the next WHEN, an opcode to request that would be nice.