Re: Proposed Enhancement to select/case (yes, I know...)

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 1990 02:27

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In article <MEISSNER.90Aug31102441@osf.osf.org> meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
>It was one of the Boston based meetings that it got added in.

Ah, academic freaks not Pascal freaks.  :-)  Thanks for the corrected history.

>... one of the problems that kept being mentioned was 'a'..'z'

That's not a problem, is it?  The only sane meaning would be the numbers from
'a' through 'z', however many there may be  (These are numbers, not characters!)
That fact that that particular code would probably not correctly achieve the
programmer's intention is the programmer's problem, not the language's.

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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
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Subject: Re: Proposed Enhancement to select/case (yes, I know...)
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Date: 2 Sep 90 02:27:34 GMT
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