[thechat] Anybody Remember IIF?
Luther, Ron
Ron.Luther at compaq.com
Wed Sep 5 15:07:07 CDT 2001
Sorry ... I'm a little more 'dazed & confused' than usual here today ...
(and understandably so given recent events!)
But Anyway, ... I just came out of a meeting where the trailing
conversation had some folks discussing if-then-else structures. I piped
in by adding "elsif" and "immediate if" to the conversation.
I was greeted with blank stares and even some laughter. Which [I have
to say] surprised and shocked the heck out of me. {Gosh - maybe I really
am THAT old!} No one else there had ever heard of "iif"!
I'm quite sure that I've used boatloads of the little buggers somewhere
in the distant past. But where? A google search turned up home grown
functions to add "iif" to delphi and/or ASP code. [Even an MS link
claiming it was an oversight to leave it out of VB!] (The delphi link
claimed it came from "C" - but I never did much with "C".)
Sorry - my cerebellum is fused at the moment. Was "iif" an old Fortran
stand-by? Or maybe used in a few dozen of the old 8-bit languages?
(There was also an "if and only if" ... but that's on old "math thing".
I think it was written "iff" and usually used in conjunction with a
bunch of upside-down capital letter "A"s ["for any"] and backwards
italic capital letter "E"s ["there exists"].)
RonL. - apparently just another "old guy" rambling and muttering to
himself today! Gosh!
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