[Oberon] A CASE quiz

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jörg [mailto:joerg.straube at iaeth.ch]
> Sent: Friday, 16 February 2018 10:37 PM
> To: chris at cfbsoftware.com; 'ETH Oberon and related systems'
> Subject: RE: [Oberon] A CASE quiz
> 
> Okay. “Q” and ”T” are not mentioned and will be trapped.

Good effort but only 5/10 I'm afraid ;-) You were right about "Q" but "T" IS
there. You have inadvertently helped to illustrate that even skilled
programmers make these sorts of mistakes.

> If you know that for ”Q” and “T” the value should be 0 then why not
> mention them explicitly.
> 

That's the whole point of the quiz. "Q" should be 2 but the programmer
forgot it altogether. 
The ELSE swallows it up without it being noticed (!!!), but the NoElse
results in a runtime error
so alerts the programmer that something needs fixing. 

The earlier in the software lifecycle that an error is detected, the cheaper
it is to fix it.

> 
> We really have to see, how many of us did detect that the numeric
> CASE is not implemented (yet) in ORP.Mod?

It has been previously discussed here a couple of years ago:

http://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2015/008508.html

Regards,
Chris

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com/RISC5