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Re: inline "End If" bug, was Re: Weird bug

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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote on 17 Nov 2015 in
microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript: 
>> Correct is:
>>
>> If boolean Then statement Else statement
> 
> Nope.   Its just how quite a few (but definitly not all!) languages have
> defined it.   It does not mean its the *only way* anyone may implement
> it in his language.
> 
> I know of languages which use your above description and work as
> Mayayana described (continuing after a "then" if no "else" is found, or
> after the first command after the "else").

I am not interested in "other languages" here, 
only in the developement of this:

Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

Seen in the light of other languages,
Basic was as bad as Edsger Wybe Dijkstra promised it to be, IMO:

"BASIC programmers are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration"
said Edsger Wybe Dijkstra in
How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975-06-18) 

[In fact our Edsger was primarily fighting a language that did everything 
with GoTo, no subroutines, no functions, so no modularity or black box 
testing, just making a unresolvable knot of even the smallest logical 
construct. And no possibility to sensibly name variables other than by a 
single Capital letter plus a number. Referring to his 1975 words however is 
a joy in itself]

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In principio [in the beginning] there was only:

If boolean GoTo linenumber

then came:

If boolean Then statement

and then:

If boolean Then statement Else statement

after that the multiline If was introduced:

If boolean Then
   statement 
Else 
  statement
End If

The multiline "ElseIf" addition even later.

The "End If" was never, formally or otherwise planned, introduced 
in the older single line If, it only was discovered in this NG
and recognised as a bug by MS.

> 
> Ofcourse, several of those languages have "command grouping" 

[snip]

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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      Re: Weird bug "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2015-11-17 17:13 +0100
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          Re: inline "End If" bug, was Re: Weird bug "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2015-11-17 18:27 +0100
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