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Branches

The best way to select alternative paths through a program is to use the block-IF structure: this may comprise a single block to be executed when a specified condition is true or several blocks to cover several eventualities. Where the IF-block would only contain one statement it is possible to use an abbreviated form called (for historical reasons) the logical-IF statement.

There is also a computed GO TO statement which can produce a multi-way branch similar to the ``case" statements of other languages.



Mario Storti
Wed Nov 4 19:32:56 ART 1998