MP 3.0: conversion

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March 18, 2013
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8. I strongly disagree with the ... conversion. Call me old-fashioned (I am after all, a skilled software engineer of 4 decades), but I will be dragged kicking and screaming to use "also if"!!! This is a very poor translation. The error message is "An instance of 'otherwise' was converted to an equivalent 'if' expression."

I don't agree with soome of the new directions of program enviroments such as MATLAB, IDL, MP3, &c. that encourage habits that I think obscure what is really happening in the code. "also if" Please! Who thought this up?

~R~

Physics

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MikeArmstrong

1-Visitor

Rich Messeder wrote:
8. I strongly disagree with the ... conversion. Call me old-fashioned (I am after all, a skilled software engineer of 4 decades), but I will be dragged kicking and screaming to use "also if"!!! This is a very poor translation. The error message is "An instance of 'otherwise' was converted to an equivalent 'if' expression."
~R~

I fully agree. But I think it's one of those things we are going to have to get use to.

Mike

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RichardJ

19-Tanzanite

"also if" Please! Who thought this up?

There were good reasons to change the programming structure. A consequence of those changes was the "also if". See this thread: http://communities.ptc.com/message/197571#197571

In my opinion the changes were necessary, and I do not see an alternative to implementing "also if". If you don't like it you do not have to use it in new worksheets, but it is needed to convert MC15 worksheets.

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SteenGroðe

10-Marble

Hmm... as you know I am one of those that really suggested a different design or maybe more different design for programming. Already around version 8 we got more or more the datalogical perspective into Mathcad which could be fine if it wasn't for the diminishing mathematics.