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From: martin@home.csc.ti.com (Steven Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: on idle "backgrounding" & switch{}/CASE
Message-ID: <64086@ti-csl.CSNET>
Date: 21 Nov 88 14:13:18 GMT
References: <570@uva.UUCP>
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Reply-To: martin@home.UUCP (Steven Martin)
Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas
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In article <570@uva.UUCP> borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) writes:
>Breaking the test-building process into chunks and doing them according to
>the number passed seems fine; where the problem comes in is how to deal with
>the number coming in and what to do--a CASE statement in Pascal, switch{} in C.
>
>As far as I can tell, there is no clean way to do this in HyperTalk other
>than ungainly masses of if/then levels.  If there is no better way, then I'll
>probably end up doing that at several levels.  But I'd rather not.

Since you are stuck with if/then levels, here is a hopefully helpful
tip on how to format then so that they don't indent to far.

The old way.

if ....
then ....
else
  if ....
  then ....
  else
    if....
    then
      .....
    end if
  end if
end if


The new way.

if ....
then ....
else if ....
then ....
else if ....
end if

Hope that helps!

Steve Martin            USENET: {ctvax,im4u,texsun,rice}!ti-csl!martin
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