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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pascal Semicolons
Message-ID: <4201@enea.se>
Date: 28 Dec 88 23:21:48 GMT
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Bob Meyer (bob@sigmast.UUCP) writes:
>Needless to say I developed a deep hatred for anything that even looks
>like the ramblings of Nicklaus Wirth (modula, ada et. al.) (I did ace
>the course though).

Obviously for no reason at all. Mr. Wirth can hardly be held
responisble for a bug in the Pascal compiler you used. If
you stumble on something similar in a C compiler, would you
start to hate C and Unix then?

>There was also something about colons
>after the otherwise switch in a case statement that didn't match
>across systems too...

Since OTHERWISE is not standard Pascal, one can only hope that such
constructs are portable. 
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Erland Sommarskog
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sommar@enea.se