Re: question concerning evaluate.

> That would be because it is an incorrect assumption. :) When a WHEN
> clause is satisfied, control passes to the next *executable* statement
> in the program. (It's an OR.) A second WHEN is a conditional
> statement, not an executable one.

As I read the standard, right idea, wrong terminology. If the criteria for
a given WHEN clause are met, execution continues with the first *imperative*
statement following the WHEN (one might even say *contained within*) the
WHEN clause, and from there to the statement following END-EVALUATE (or the
implicit end of the EVALUATE statement). Note that *an* imperative
statement may consist of a *sequence of* imperative statements.

Thus, WHEN is not a *statement* at all, it's a clause of the EVALUATE. It
isn't because it's a "conditional statement" that it's not executed, it's
that the rules for WHEN basically say when you're done executing the
imperative statements associated with a WHEN you're done executing the
EVALUATE.

-Chuck Stevens


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