From: Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
Subject: Re: What's syntax for a case statement?
Date: 1997/06/13
Date: 1997-06-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33A20B49.19D4@dynamite.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.866135079@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> Alan said
>
> <<case < name-of-a-descrete variable> is
> This is completely wrong, there is no requirement that the expression after
> the case be the name of a discrete variable, it is a general expression.
>
> If you are going to post syntax that can easily be looked up, at least do
> it right!
I stand corrected, and my thanks.
Moral of story: Never, ever, post on a public newsgroup at 3 am,
immediately after writing to a student why he couldn't say
case NameOfAFloat is
when 0.0..3.768 =>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-06-13 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-10 0:00 What's syntax for a case statement? Scott B Moore
1997-06-10 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-10 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-06-11 0:00 ` Darren C Davenport
[not found] ` <5nllti$lgb@zdi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
1997-06-12 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1997-06-12 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1997-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-13 0:00 ` Alan Brain [this message]
1997-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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