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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:45:43 -0700
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Chris Costello wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 26, 1999, Doug wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> >       As previously discussed, here is a first draft of the rc* script mods. I
> > consider the first step in this process to be Jordan's cleanup of the
> > variable syntax. This is step 2, which most notably converts test's dealing
> > with variables to case wherever possible. It also does the following.
> 
> > 2. value ) instead of value) for case statements
> 
>    Why?  What's wrong with `value)'?

	Nothing functionally, but I find case statements much easier to read with
the extra whitespace. 

Doug


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