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Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 6, 2018

RELATED IDEAS

New builtin IFTHENELSE

a new builtin IFTHENELSE(expr, truepart, falsepart) should evaluate the expr and returns the truepart or the falsepart
the returned datatype depends on the coded parts (e.g. bit, alphanumeric or numeric datatype)
nested use of IFTHENELSE should be possible: ifthenelse(expr, ifthenelse(expr2, x, y), z)

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 5, 2019

    this is part of the 5.3 release

  • Guest
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    |     Jan 23, 2019

    nice!
    this would be a "light" variant of the (repeatedly rejected) conditional operator :-).

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 14, 2018

    This would be good for programmers who know C/C++

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