Re: Flowchart protocol

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 14:18 -0500, Jim Clark wrote:
> Not a dia question, but I cannot see an answer on the web. I am making
> a flow chart with a sequence of 4 decision points. If any of those are
> a "No" I want to go to the same "re-evaluate" box. Is it legal to have
> the arrows coming out of these decision points all merge into one
> arrow going to this re-evaluate box?
>
> Otherwise I'd have to have 4 arrows right next to each other all going
> to one small box. Just looks ugly to me, and silly as they all run
> parallel for most of their existence. But in my world, where form can
> trump substance, I want to be sure to follow official flow-charting
> rules.

AFAIK, IBM is the place that has the official flow-charting rules, if
any.  We have not based our shapes on any rules as such, so I can't
really point you to any.

-Lars

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Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>