I blew the parenthesis around the conditional expression also. Hence the *old* comment. (Embedded image moved to file: pic14771.jpg)
Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 12/16/2004 06:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PM Subject: Re: pl/pgsql oddity On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 15:34:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I prefer the FORTRAN66 construct > > IF <condition> <label1> <label2> <label3> My memory is that those labels were separated by commas. > > where it jumps to label1 if <condition> is negative, label2 if zero, and > label3 if positive. No else ifs about it. > > I hope you realize I'm as kidding as I am obviously too old. As long as you are dredging up old Fortran; in my opinion computed gotos were harder to follow than the ones based on the sign of an expression.
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