pc doesn't allow an ``others'' clause in outputs

[Guido van Rossum]

In article <721 at umcp-cs.UUCP> chris at umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>	While not strictly a bug, the lack of a specifier for a
>	default case label can be quite a pain.  The changes included
>	here are straight from Cornell; though their changes were
>	for version 2.0, the code has been tested in version 3.0
>	and appears to work.

It's a long time since I've flamed, but this one really gets me crazy.

A CHANGE TO THE LANGUAGE presented as a simple bug fix!

I hope this fix is ignored by every system administrator on the net,
if they care at all for the languages they're supporting.

In one newsgroup (net.lang.c) long discussions are going on about
whether to add a statement to jump out of nested loops, and here,
without any prior discussion, is presented the code to change "Pascal".

Don't you dare call it Pascal any longer, my dear!

Hmm, you wouldn't read on anyhow, I guess; I sent the real hot flames
to Chris himself.

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	Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
	guido at mcvax.UUCP

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