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After either branch has been executed, control returns to the point after the <code>end If</code>. | After either branch has been executed, control returns to the point after the <code>end If</code>. | ||
===The legal if=== | |||
It is to just this kind of simplicity and functional clarity that a legal contract ought to aspire. But heres the difference: A computer coder depends on a dumb client to faithfully interpret and flawlessly implement his code. If it doesn’t, his programme won’t work. A lawyer relies on his dumb client to come back to him and ask him what it all means. | It is to just this kind of simplicity and functional clarity that a legal contract ought to aspire. But heres the difference: A computer coder depends on a dumb client to faithfully interpret and flawlessly implement his code. If it doesn’t, his programme won’t work. A [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyer]], by contrast, depends on quite the opposite: he relies on his dumb client to come back to him and ask him what it all means. | ||
So the diligent lawyer writes not with clarity and simplicity, but densely and with {{tag|flannel}}. The most basic of operators - [[if]] - he renders as “[[in the event that]]”. A single [[conjunction]] replaced by a [[preposition]], a [[definite article]], a [[noun]] and a different [[conjunction]]. | So the diligent lawyer writes not with clarity and simplicity, but densely and with {{tag|flannel}}. The most basic of operators - [[if]] - he renders as “[[in the event that]]”. A single [[conjunction]] replaced by a [[preposition]], a [[definite article]], a [[noun]] and a different [[conjunction]]. | ||