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...@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 > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
