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In article <3041@enea.se> sommar@enea.UUCP(Erland Sommarskog) writes:

|The bad point with words like "esac" is that you have to read them twice, 
|at least, to see what's going on.

After the first couple of times, I had this one memorized.

|The sole advantage over "end case" is that you save some keys to type.
|[...]
|"End case" is clearer. It also have the advantage that you only have to
|read "end" if you're just taking a quick glance; The fact that it is the
|end of a case-statement may be irrelevant at the moment.

'End case' usually takes me longer to read, since I usually read it as two
separate English words vs. 'esac', which I consider to be a simply
memorized end of case.

|Note also that "end if" (or "fi" or whatever") helps you little when
|you have many nested if-statements. You're just as bad out as with
|only "end", unless you add a comments like:
|       end if;    -- test A
|    end if;       -- test B

Oh, no!!  You and I agree on something, again!! :-)
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