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From: fsbrn@BRL.MIL ( Ferd Brundick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re:  TPascal-puzzle
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Date: 25 Jun 91 15:03:52 GMT
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Haah,

If your sample code is *exactly* what your program used, then the
answer is simple.  You have a semicolon after the THEN clause and that
terminates the IF.  The ELSE belongs to the CASE (as a default or
none-of-the-above entry).  If the Pascal you are using did not allow
an ELSE on a CASE (it is an extension) then the compiler would have
complained about an ELSE without an IF.  IF/THEN/ELSE is a single
complex statement, not a compound statement made up of substatements
that have to be separated by semicolons.

Overall, a ***very*** subtle bug.  I prefer CASEs that use DEFAULT or
OTHERWISE instead of overloading the ELSE verb.

                                        dsw, fferd
                                        Fred S. Brundick
                                        USABRL, APG, MD.
                                        <fsbrn@brl.mil>