A code style question

[Bob Sneidar]

I believe dBase/Foxpro had an iif function. That is because they also had an if control structure command and the compiler needed to discern between the two. 

Bob S


> On Jan 21, 2015, at 07:15 , Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com> wrote:
> 
> On 21/01/2015 01:58, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> On 1/20/2015 7:33 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
>>> The nested if statements in the first
>>> one, and the duplicated
>>> 
>>>     set the baseID of this stack to "this card"
>>> 
>>> offend my eye.
>> 
>> There's two of us then.
> 
> Me three.
> 
> Also I was glad to see you also have a reflex of defining
> 
>> function iff X,T,F
>>   if X then return T else return F
>> end iff
> 
> (I usually name my version "ifthenelse" - I like the conciseness of yours, but I studied logic some decades ago, so for me "iff" is already a word, and it means something different - if and only if.)
> 
> I don't we think should be proposing fundamental additions to the language very often, but this is such a useful one that I think it should be considered.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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