+1
Yaron Y. Goland wrote:
> Issue 136 – If-Then-Else Support
>
> Proposal: Rename the elements in switch to make them into an
> if-then-elseif-else structure.
>
> Rationale: BPEL's switch is identical in functionality to what other
> languages use if-then-elseif-else for. To make matters more confusing
> other languages do include a control structure called 'switch' but in
> the majority of languages that 'switch' doesn't work anything like
> BPEL's switch does.
> Following the principle of least surprise it would be best if
> BPEL's flow control structures followed the same naming styles as used
> by just about every other major language.
>
> Changes Required: Replace "switch" with "if", "case" with "elseif",
> "otherwise" with "else" and add in a "then" and condition element to
> the switch activity. This is a purely syntactic change.
>
> <if standard-attributes>
> standard-elements
> <condition expressionLanguage="anyURI"?>
> ... bool-expr ...
> </condition>
> <then>activity</then>
> <elseif> *
> <condition expressionLanguage="anyURI"?>
> ... bool-expr ...
> </condition>
> activity
> </elseif>
> <else>?
> activity
> </else>
> </if>
>
> Note: Good ideas stolen from Maciej, bad ones I invented myself.
>
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