Re: Otherwise

13 Jul 1999

      Hi!

Jonathan Ashley wrote:
...
[...] If one of the previous cases contains a case statement
itself, the compiler falls over. For example:
-----------
program TestCase(input, output);
var
        test: integer;
        subtest: integer;
begin
        test := 3;
        subtest := 5;
case test of
                1:      case subtest of
                                5:      writeln("subvalue was 5")
                        end
        otherwise       writeln("value wasn't 1")
        end
end.
What's the problem?  For me, this program outputs "value wasn't 1"
as it should be.

If I change the first assignment to "test := 1" I get "subvalue
was 5", so everything okay here, too.

    Peter

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