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jbrave
Channel Surfer
16 years ago

(rant) if then else weirdness & ideal message loops

I want my code to be readable. an IF that isn't terminated with an End if makes for difficult to read code. Yet Brightscript seems to complain if you have every if terminated, for instance: if x=1...
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kbenson
Visitor
16 years ago
Single line if statements don't require an end if, in the same vein as single line if statements in C/C++, PHP, etc. don't require braces.

In C:

if (boolean)
    statement;
not_part_of_if_statement();


There is a solution to your problem in BrightScript. Use colons to separate multiple statements on a single line.

if x=1 : x = x+1 : y = y-1 : end if

function myfunc() : return "test" : end function

if     x=1 : print "1"
elseif x=2 : print "2"
elseif x=3 : print "3"
else       : print "I dunno"
end if


Note that it's a colon, not a semicolon, like many other languages. Don't get them confused...