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I do the same. I even go so far as to not use "True" and "False"
but numbers instead....and soforth and so on.
I can't recall this subject ever having come up before on this list.
Glad to hear others doing the same.
Bob Fulks wrote:
> At 09:49 PM 11/15/2003, DH wrote:
>
> >> IF CCISCH=1 THEN IF CCISTR=TRUE THEN CCISTRA=TRUE
> >> ELSE CCISTRA=FALSE;
> >
> >Those kind of constructs always make me nervous because I don't trust EL
> >to know which IF/THEN the ELSE is meant to go with. Maybe it does it
> >right every time but I've learned to never take anything like that for
> >granted so I talk to EL like it's a retarded child. :-) I usually use
> >BEGIN/END statements to make certain EL and I are on the same page but
> >parentheses would probably force it to do the right thing as well. Just
> >for fun, try some parentheses with the one that doesn't work, something
> >like this....
> >
> >IF CCISCH=1 THEN (IF CCISTR=TRUE THEN CCISTRA=TRUE
> > ELSE CCISTRA=FALSE);
>
> I agree completely with Dennis.
>
> NEVER assume that the EasyLanguage compiler will parse a complex expression correctly!
>
> ALWAYS force it to do what you would like with parentheses... I have spent endless hours debugging correct code that compiles incorrectly.
>
> In addition, it makes your code easier to understand later so is not a bad thing to do anyway.
>
> Bob Fulks
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