Revision as of 12:12, 13 February 2012

EGL provides general statements, as well as statements that are used for interacting with an external data source.

General statements

Case

The case statement responds to conditions at run time by executing one set of statements rather than another:

• You can test a criterion value. The following example invokes mySecondFunction:

function test()
   x Int = 3; 
 
   case (x)
      when (1)
         myFirstFunction();
      when (2, 3, 4)
         mySecondFunction();      
      otherwise
         myDefaultFunction();
   end   
end

• You can test a set of logical expressions. The following example displays only "x passes":

function test()
   x Int = 3;
   y Int = 5;
   z Int = 7;
 
   case
      when (x == 3)
         SysLib.writeStdOut("x passes");
      when (y == 5)
         SysLib.writeStdOut("y passes");
      when (z == 7)
         SysLib.writeStdOut("z passes");
      otherwise
         SysLib.writeStdErr("You will not see this message.");
      end
   end 
end

As shown, no more than one clause executes.  Control does not “fall through” from one clause to the next: