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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: if-then-no-else Programming
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 01:18:27 -0500
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On 4/18/2016 9:24 PM, Charles H. Sampson wrote:

>
>     Variable := 3;
>     if <condtion> then
>        Variable := 1;
>     end if;
>
> In addition to some other goodness attributes, this is supposed to be
> clearer than the if-then-else form.
>
> Is he right? (He's not really a coder. His experience is in wire-frame
> animation but he's being forced into coding by the job market.) If he's
> not right, have any of you even heard of an area of the software
> "profession" where this position is held?
>

The above is very confusing way to code. I would not recommened it.