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From: bprice@bmcg.UUCP (Bill Price)
Newsgroups: net.lang.pascal
Subject: Otherwise clause in pc
Message-ID: <1745@bmcg.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 17:48:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: bmcg.1745
Posted: Tue Jul 16 17:48:24 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 10:45:41 EDT
References: <645@umd5.UUCP> <6830@Shasta.ARPA>
Reply-To: bprice@bmcg.UUCP (Bill Price)
Organization: Burroughs Corp. ASG, San Diego, CA.
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Summary: 

In article <6830@Shasta.ARPA> trickey@Shasta.ARPA writes:
>When I and others ported TeX to UNIX, the "others:" problem had to be
>solved.  
>                 We asked Berkeley if they would consider putting
>the fix into pc, and they said no, because they didn't want to add
>such a non-standard feature to the language 
>			Howard Trickey
>			...decwrl!Glacier!Shasta!trickey

That's both good and bad:  bad because pc is non-standard, but good because
Berkeley refused to make it even more so.  In this respect, the standard
completer clause for the case statement is 
	"otherwise" statement-sequence
rather than "others" as a case-constant-list.
-- 
--Bill Price  uucp:  {Most Anybody}!sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice
              arpa:? sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice@nosc