bprice@bmcg.UUCP (Bill Price) (07/17/85)
In article <6830@Shasta.ARPA> trickey@Shasta.ARPA writes: >When I and others ported TeX to UNIX, the "others:" problem had to be >solved. > We asked Berkeley if they would consider putting >the fix into pc, and they said no, because they didn't want to add >such a non-standard feature to the language > Howard Trickey > ...decwrl!Glacier!Shasta!trickey That's both good and bad: bad because pc is non-standard, but good because Berkeley refused to make it even more so. In this respect, the standard completer clause for the case statement is "otherwise" statement-sequence rather than "others" as a case-constant-list. -- --Bill Price uucp: {Most Anybody}!sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice arpa:? sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice@nosc