Re: Regarding EVALUATE TRUE

On 8/15/2007 at 1:24 PM, in message
<1187205842.058944.251680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Alistair<alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All this talk about Evaluate has forced me to go and look up the verb
in the Fujitsu manual. After much digging it seems that my worst fears
have been denied: the evaluate does not drop through to subsequent
Whens once one When has been satisfied. Unlike some other language (I
shall refrain from mentioning) where a similar verb does drop through
to a subsequent case and may execute it. Phew.

Thank god! I know the other language of which you speak, and I can't
imagine why it was done that way. Sure, there is the occasional situation
where the default of fall-through would be useful, but I'm guessing 90% of
the time you want it to 'short circuit' and perform only the logic of the
first condition that is met.

Perhaps in the systems programming arena that is not the case...

Frank

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