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From: bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu (Bruce Carter)
Subject: Re: Why no 'case' statement in Hypertalk?  Suggestions?
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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1991 15:58:07 GMT

In article <55655@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
>Still simpler (forget all the else statements):
>
>on keyDown key
>  if key is "a" then beep
>  if key is "b" then beep 2
>  if key is "c" then beep 3
>  pass keyDown
>end keyDown

Simpler, but slower.  In this construction all of the if statements have to be
evaluated individually.
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