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From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: Expressive Case Statements (was: Software landmines)
Date: 1998/09/02
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Another question: Are all possibilities handled separately, or are
there "don't cares" that merge, eg
  when FF =>
  when FT =>
  when TF | TT =>
And one assumes, of course, that the code in each branch is relatively
small and not worth making 2**N children of an abstract tagged with  a
separate "procedure calculate" for each one.