| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | Richard_D_Levine(at)raytheon(dot)com |
| Cc: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, Geoffrey <esoteric(at)3times25(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pl/pgsql oddity |
| Date: | 2004-12-16 23:13:41 |
| Message-ID: | 20041216231341.GA21441@wolff.to |
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 15:34:03 -0500,
Richard_D_Levine(at)raytheon(dot)com 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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