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From: jpwoodruff@irisinternet.net (John Woodruff)
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Subject: Re: In case statment? <...> when others
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Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message news:<slrnari64a.pd.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no>...
<...>
 
> Now my next question is should a case statment be:
> 
>    case Number is
> 
>       when others =>
>          null;
>    end case;
> 
> Or simply:
> 
>    case Number is
> 
>    end case;
> 
> I'm leaning towards the latter as this is also how ada-mode does it.


I urge you to follow your leaning.  My reasoning is that (in my
experience) it is fairly common to extend an enumeration;  By omiting
the "others", I will be sure to be reminded that I need to revisit the
case statement(s).

John