Re: [wsbpel] Issue 136 - Proposal For Vote

[Danny van der Rijn <dannyv@tibco.com>]

+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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