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From: pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang)
Subject: Re: Function of semi-colon in Pascal (was: Pascal puzzle)
In-Reply-To: cslaurie@cybaswan.UUCP's message of 27 Jun 91 19:53:48 GMT
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In article <2580@cybaswan.UUCP> cslaurie@cybaswan.UUCP (Laurie Moseley ) writes:

 > I expected that this piece of code would not compile.
   [....]
 > Anyway, I tried it out of curiosity, and sure enough it did not compile
 > (and it shouldn't). 

At least in Turbo Pascal, there is a provision for a CASE-ELSE
statement, so the above code is acceptable on certain compilers.

Peter, to get your code to do what you want: (a) remove the semicolon
after "RequestExit"; (b) put in some way for the user to change the
value of the variable "confirm".

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