According to the Wikipedia article on FORTRAN, CAS was
usually not the
most efficient way to implement arithmetic IF anyway. CAS takes up
four words of memory and takes three cycles to execute, whereas you
can do it in two words and two cycles with the transfer instructions.
Though the article's conclusion was right, its numbers were wrong.
As a correct discussion of possible implementations of arithmetic-IF
would be long and essentially off topic, I have chopped most of it
out of the article.
doug