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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Thought this was funny
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"Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net> writes:

> 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?
> ;-).

Or perhaps he's an XSLT programmer -- 

<xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="some-test">
    <!-- stuff -->
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise>
    <!-- other stuff -->
  </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

Helps if you have the right Emacs mode, of course.

(errm, perhaps I should rephrase that sig!)

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.