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From: reagan@hiyall.enet.dec.com (John R. Reagan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: ELSE considered harmful  :-)
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Date: 1 Mar 90 14:43:23 GMT
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In article <9110013@hpfcso.HP.COM>, bigelow@hpfcso.HP.COM (Jim Bigelow) writes...
>Not to be smug, HP Pascal chose to implement the otherwise clause for case
>statements rather than an "else".
> 
>Jim Bigelow
>S300 Pascal
>Colorado Language Lab
>HP

The new Extended Pascal standard has also chosen OTHERWISE for CASE
statements and variant records.

				-John Reagan