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From: Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com>
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Subject: Why no named case statements?
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 16:06:12 -0700 (PDT)
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Ada allows optional names for loops and declare blocks but not for
case or if statetements. Why not, since these are also multi-line
statements that terminate with an 'end" keyword? I sometimes use loop
names to clearly indicate the purpose of the loop and have wished I
could do the same for case statements, e.g.,

Decide_This:
case Some_Variable is
...
end case Decide_This;

or similarly for long if statements:

Decide_That:
if Whatever then
...
end if Decide_That:

Such names could also be used in the outline view of an IDE like
Eclipse to support quick location of the named entity.

I suppose there was some rationale so I'm curious what it was.

- Britt