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Xbase DO CASE indention
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>>>I propose a new law that says everyone who does not indent the CASE lines in a DO CASE...ENDCASE should be fined $1500 per instance.
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>>>:-)
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>>IF I could get just $1 for each instance of code that I do not like it, I would be rich, RICH!
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>>The most expensive fine I would deal would be for those coders that use ELSE instead of OTHERWISE in a case statement, it is JUST PLAIN WRONG!!! :)
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>I did not even know you could do that. I tried it just now and it compiled without error, but it seems like it's dead code that's never accessed. The behavior was different than OTHERWISE.
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>What does an ELSE do in a DO CASE?

Well, as I said, it is plain wrong :) (but I saw code that uses ELSE several times, unfortunately no error it just ignores it making difficult to debug)
do case
	case .f.
		? 'False'
	*otherwise
	else
		? 'True'
endcase
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