"Xenos" <dont.spam.me@spamhate.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> 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? ;-).

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