Talk:Conditional (programming)

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It would be great if this article mentioned, briefly, how this is done in binary. Nothing major, but I think a small discussion about operators and how the AND, NOT, and OR operators work to evaluate and If...Then statement. Sir Isaac Lime 16:36, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] If statements in Wiki markup language.

This page should also include examples of IF statements in the Wiki markup language. Robert Elliott 07:09, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

That would be self reference, which would violate NPOV. If we did that, we'd have to include statements in all languages. A dab link could however be used to direct the reader to a page in the WP: namespace. Richard001 20:17, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ada elsif and the dangling-else problem

The article mentions else-if constructs without covering the dangling-else problem, even though C/C++ is shown in examples & the cross reference and it can occur in those languages. Also, in section Conditional_statement#Else_If_parts the assertion is made that elseif, in Ada, is simply syntactic sugar for else followed by if, which is incorrect. A brief description of the the dangling-else problem and how the Ada syntax avoids it can be found here. Does anyone object to adding material on dangling-else and correcting the assertion on Ada syntax? Tslavens 23:13, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

There already is an entire article on Dangling else; this article should definitely either link to it, or perhaps a merge may make sense. As for as the Ada example goes, the 'elseif' is in fact just syntactic sugar, but not as its described; the description needs fixed. Also note that other languages, like Python, have an 'elif' which is needed because of the lack of curly-braces or other means to delimit a sequence-of-statements, but it certainly does not suffer from a dangling-else problem....so there may be different motivations for an else-if than just the Ada case. - Dmeranda 15:23, 5 July 2007 (UTC)