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From: Ching Bon Lam <c.lam_REMOVE_THIS@student.utwente.nl>
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Subject: Re: Thought this was funny
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"Xenos" <dont.spam.me@spamhate.com> wrote in
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> 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
> 
> 
>