[fpc-pascal] case statement

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:

> Note that the same ambiguity exists in the <exception-handler> syntax (and 
> this is less well known)
>
> exceptionhandlers =  [ exception-handler { ";" exception-handler } [ "ELSE" 
> statement-list ] | statement-list ] .
> exception-handler = "ON" [ identifier ":" ] class-type-identifier "DO" 
> statement .
>
> as <exception-handler> ends with a <statement> and the optional <"ELSE" 
> statement-list> part start with "ELSE". Sloppy language design, I assume by 
> Borland.

What exactly do you consider "sloppy" ?

The fact that the semicolon before the else is optional ?

Michael.