From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!mcnc!ncsu!mauney
Newsgroups: net.lang.pascal
Title: if-then-else
Article-I.D.: ncsu.1086
Posted: Sat Feb 12 16:37:51 1983
Received: Sun Feb 13 07:58:33 1983


  The problem with
     if  then (*nothing*) else 
  is that Berkeley's compiler (incorrectly) requires a non-null
  statement in the 'then' portion.  placing an empty begin-end pair
  will fix the problem.

                Jon Mauney