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From: "Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>
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It's hard to say, but maybe the compiler generated better code for a case
statement than an if statement?  I know I have resorted to funny looking
sources based on funny stuff the compiler does (including working around
compiler bugs)... generally accompanied by a comment to that effect.


Steve
(The Duck)

"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
>
>