From: Ching Bon Lam <c.lam_REMOVE_THIS@student.utwente.nl>
Subject: Re: Thought this was funny
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:26:19 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-10-21T20:26:19+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Xns941BE43E6D5C2cblamstudentutwenten@130.89.1.105> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bn42kf$ca3@cui1.lmms.lmco.com
"Xenos" <dont.spam.me@spamhate.com> wrote in
news:bn42kf$ca3@cui1.lmms.lmco.com:
> Reviewing some old code we are converting from Ada 83 to 95, I came
> across this:
>
> case <boolean expression> is
> when true =>
> <do something>
>
> when false =>
> <do something else>
isn't it good programming style to always include "when others"? :)
>
> end case;
>
>
> Kind of made me chuckle a little. The guy how wrote it is Canadian,
> so I took to calling it the "Canadian If Statement" (not in a cruel
> way).
>
>
> DrX
>
>
>
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2003-10-21 19:49 Thought this was funny Xenos
2003-10-21 20:26 ` Ching Bon Lam [this message]
2003-10-21 20:44 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-10-21 20:36 ` Ed Falis
2003-10-21 21:08 ` Stephane Richard
2003-10-21 22:16 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-21 22:24 ` Ed Falis
2003-10-22 0:36 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-22 1:37 ` Ed Falis
2003-10-22 3:56 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-22 13:44 ` Ed Falis
2003-10-21 23:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-10-22 0:23 ` Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2003-10-21 22:23 ` Simon Wright
2003-10-22 2:57 ` Steve
2003-10-22 6:26 ` Anders Wirzenius
2003-10-22 6:36 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-10-22 12:38 ` Christopher J. Henrich
2003-10-22 15:00 ` Martin Dowie
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2003-10-22 6:44 christoph.grein
2003-10-22 7:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-10-22 8:48 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-10-23 2:17 ` Wes Groleau
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