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Ten_92952
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratusirule question
Would someone be able to tell my why the syntax for this irule is acceptable to the BigIp
when RULE_INIT {
Purpose:
This rule allows the ace servers access to the acme we...
Hamish
Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusShort answer is because the first is syntactically correct, but the second isn't... It's missing the block of something to do.
In languages like C or perl, you could put a ';' in place to denote what is essentially a no-op... But tcl doesn't have that syntax... It's expecting something to do. And 'else' isn't a valid 'something to do'. It's part of the control itself. It's also IMO bad practice to write code such that an evaluation results in a NOOP and you have an else there instead (Sorry, comp sci education coming out in me again).
A better syntax (If you really don't want to do anything from the if{} statement is to negate the test. Then you don't need the else {} at all.
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