It's rule by if-then statement: if some condition is met, then a response is automatically meted out.
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If you're writing an "if, then" statement and you write the wrong then — than instead of then — the program has no idea what you're talking about.
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The film is best understood today as an "if/then" statement: If a society feels threatened, then it can turn toward a nationalism that pins its most difficult problems on vulnerable populations.
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As an example, consider a rule used to control a three-speed fan. A binary IF- THEN statement may be :IF temperature \geq 30 :THEN fan speed is 3 The disadvantage of this rule is that it uses a strict temperature as a threshold, but the user may want the fan to still function at this speed when temperature = 29.9. A fuzzy IF-THEN statement may be :IF temperature is hot :THEN fan speed is fast where hot and fast are described using fuzzy sets.
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Hiro is disappointed and scared, thinking the world will end because he didn't save the cheerleader. But Hiro believes it was an "if then" statement. Ando expresses doubt, but Hiro assures him that he knows future Hiro meant it to be that way. As they walk away from the school, they get a call from Isaac Mendez.
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To accomplish the same using an if-statement, this would take more than one line of code (under typical layout conventions), and require mentioning "my_variable" twice: if (x > 10) my_variable = "foo"; else my_variable = "bar"; Some argue that the explicit if/then statement is easier to read and that it may compile to more efficient code than the ternary operator, while others argue that concise expressions are easier to read than statements spread over several lines containing repetition.
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An if/then statement is phrased as a question posed by a character. The words "as [any adjective] as" represent a test for equality, while "better" and "worse" correspond to greater than and less than, respectively. A subsequent line, starting "if so" or "if not", determines what happens in response to the truth or falsehood of the original condition. A goto statement begins "Let us", "We shall", or "We must", continues "return to" or "proceed to", and then gives an act or scene.
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The approach is based on the assumption that many aspects of intelligence can be achieved by the manipulation of symbols, an assumption defined as the "physical symbol systems hypothesis" by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon in the middle 1960s. One popular form of symbolic AI is expert systems, which uses a network of production rules. Production rules connect symbols in a relationship similar to an If-Then statement. The expert system processes the rules to make deductions and to determine what additional information it needs, i.e.
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The Covenant Code consists largely of case or casuistic law (often in the form of an "if-then" statement, in which specific situations are addressed),Coogan, Michael D., A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 424 as for example Exodus 21:33–36. Apodictic laws (characterized by absolute or general commands or prohibitions, as in the Ten Commandments) on the other hand, also appear in the Covenant Code, for example in Exodus 21:17 ("Whoever curses father or mother shall be put to death").Coogan, pp.
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After either branch has been executed, control returns to the point after the `end If`. In early programming languages, especially some dialects of BASIC in the 1980s home computers, an `if–then` statement could only contain `GOTO` statements (equivalent to a branch instruction). This led to a hard-to-read style of programming known as spaghetti programming, with programs in this style called spaghetti code. As a result, structured programming, which allows (virtually) arbitrary statements to be put in statement blocks inside an `if` statement, gained in popularity, until it became the norm even in most BASIC programming circles.
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The meaning of "no justice, no peace" may change between conditional and conjunctive depending on the speaker. In the conditional interpretation, the slogan is rendered as an "if-then" statement, which implies that peaceful action is impossible without justice, and which urges citizens to demonstrate against injustice even if doing so results in violence. After the 2014 shooting of Tamir Rice, journalist Glen Ford wrote: Zimmer writes that during the 1980s and '90s, No justice, no peace' was unequivocally understood as conditional, not conjunctive", such as in a 1988 statement by lawyer Ron Kuby before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Criminal Justice: By contrast, in the conjunctive interpretation, one is stating that neither peace or justice can exist without the other. After the acquittal in the Trayvon Martin murder case, the chaplain of the University of Pennsylvania said, "A lack of justice has resulted in a lack of peace", "Heavy hearts now lack peace because of the lack of justice in our nation", and "No peace because of no justice.
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