Re: [HACKERS] \if, \elseif, \else, \endif (was Re: PSQL commands: \quit_if, \quit_unless)

On 11 February 2017 at 23:45, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> wrote:
> So you'd just want to know nesting depth, with no indicator of true/false?

Even that's more than bash does, for example:

$ if true ; then
> if false ; then
> :
> fi
> fi

I'm a bit confused how the true/false is actually valuable. It doesn't
tell you how the expression actually evaluated, just where you are in
the code you're typing in which you can tell equally well by looking
at what code you're typing in. The reason nesting level is handy is
just to remind you in case you forget.

For debugging scripts it would be handy to have some way to tell
whether the \if expression actually evaluated to true or false but
that wouldn't be in the prompt I don't think.

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greg