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From: jaap@haring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: pc doesn't allow an ``others'' clause in outputs
Message-ID: <347@haring.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 15:32:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  7 15:32:07 1984
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In article <721@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>>	While not strictly a bug, the lack of a specifier for a
>>	default case label can be quite a pain.  The changes included
>>	here are straight from Cornell; though their changes were
>>	for version 2.0, the code has been tested in version 3.0
>>	and appears to work.

Guido writes in <6141@mcvax,UUCP>:
>A CHANGE TO THE LANGUAGE presented as a simple bug fix!

This reminds me of this huge program I once installed. It was written
in pascal and supposed to be very portable.

The way it was written (actually generated from another program)
depended on a default case label. So you got this new pass of pc to
install first...