Re: Ada case-statement

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote in message 
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> It would be nice to allow compilers to allow the when others to be omitted 
> based on what it knows about the value of The_Day but all that is 
> syntactic sugar.

Actually, we considered that in variants, but it turns out that it would 
cause an incompatibility. I forget the details, but it has something to do 
with the completeness checks (which we would not want to lose). We tried a 
number of options, but they were worse than the original problem. So we 
decided not to do it. In any case, it's a lot more than "syntactic sugar", 
it would substantially change the semantics.

                              Randy.