'CASE' bug!_(re)

Tue, 7 Oct 1997 00:19:39 +0200 (MEST)

According to Kevin A. Foss:
> EP does have an 'otherwise'
> feature and my reading of 10206:6.9.3.5 is that like BP's "else" usage,
> "otherwise" doesn't require a begin/end for statement sequences either.

I agree about how you read ISO-10206:6.9.3.5.  It is like BP, just with
`otherwise' instead of `else'.  Without a `:' after `otherwise'.

So GNU Pascal was wrong here from the very beginning.  Unless there are
other compilers to keep compatibility with, I will change that.

    Peter

 Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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