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Re: Proposed Enhancement to select/case

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 1990 11:01
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In article <1420@lupine.NCD.COM> rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) writes:
>Perhaps someone who served on X3J11 could give us a quick
>summary about what happened to case ranges in X3J11.

What do you mean, what happened to them?  They were an unnecessary
invention and so were omitted from the standard, just like thousands
of other such inventions.  This is explained in the cover text to
any of the official X3J11 responses to public review comments.
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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
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Subject: Re: Proposed Enhancement to select/case
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Date: 2 Sep 90 11:01:21 GMT
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Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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