From: "Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Thought this was funny
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:08:22 GMT
Date: 2003-10-21T21:08:22+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <afhlb.9619$PZ1.935@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> (raw)
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"Xenos" <dont.spam.me@spamhate.com> wrote in message
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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>
>
> 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
>
I'm canadian and that code made me chuckle too ;-). The programmer much have
read how to handle the enumeration type first, then read about the Boolean
type being an enumeration of True and False maybe? ;-).
--
St�phane Richard
"Ada World" Webmaster
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-21 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-21 19:49 Thought this was funny Xenos
2003-10-21 20:26 ` Ching Bon Lam
2003-10-21 20:44 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-10-21 20:36 ` Ed Falis
2003-10-21 21:08 ` Stephane Richard [this message]
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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