Formatting Executable Statements

The following conventions should be observed when formatting executable statements:

• Statements are placed on new lines, indented one tab stop from the level of their surrounding block.

Note: Do not place more than one statement on a single line. While this practice is permitted in other programming languages, in Cicode the subsequent statements will not be interpreted and will effectively be lost, potentially affecting your program's runtime behavior.

Although it may be argued that some statements are logically related, this is not sufficient justification. If they are logically related, place the statements on consecutive lines and separate the statements by a blank line before and after. For example:

• hFile = -1; hForm = -1; // WRONG 
  
  hFile = -1; // RIGHT 
  
  hForm = -1; // RIGHT
  

• IF statements can be used in one of the formats below. When indenting the IF statements, a tab stop should be used. For example:
• Simple IF block

• IF <expression> THEN
  
  	 ...
  END
  

• IF-THEN-ELSE block

• IF <expression> THEN
  
  	 ...
  
  ELSE
  
  	 ...
  
  END
  

• To simulate ELSEIF blocks, use nested statements. For example:

• IF <expression> THEN
  
  	 ...
  
  ELSE
  
  	 IF <expression> THEN
  
  				...
  
  	 ELSE
  
  			IF <expression> THEN
  
  						...
  
  			 ELSE
  
  					...
  				END
  
  	 END
  
  END
  

• For WHILE and FOR statements see Working with Conditional Executors.

See Also

Using Cicode Commands

Working with Conditional Executors

Using Cicode Programming Standards