From 26d92bb8921ac4e022cdc88bde8fc7bc617f8766 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:49:53 +0100
Subject: A hack to distinguish if..else from else: in case.

The old BIRD grammar needs two lookaheads to distinguish if..else from
else: in case, which caused the parser to fail on some combinations of
both expressions.

This patch replaces two tokens 'else' ':' by one token 'else:' to fix
that.
---
 doc/bird.sgml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc')

diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml
index 7b6e97a..b5bdb93 100644
--- a/doc/bird.sgml
+++ b/doc/bird.sgml
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ prefix and prefix (returning true if first prefix is more specific than second o
 <M>command_1</M>; <M>command_2</M>; <M>...</M> }</cf> instead of either command. The <cf>else</cf>
 clause may be omitted. If the <cf><m>boolean expression</m></cf> is true, <cf><m>command1</m></cf> is executed, otherwise <cf><m>command2</m></cf> is executed.
 
-<p>The <cf>case</cf> is similar to case from Pascal. Syntax is <cf>case <m/expr/ { else |
+<p>The <cf>case</cf> is similar to case from Pascal. Syntax is <cf>case <m/expr/ { else: |
 <m/num_or_prefix [ .. num_or_prefix]/: <m/statement/ ; [ ... ] }</cf>. The expression after
 <cf>case</cf> can be of any type which can be on the left side of the &tilde; operator and anything that could
 be a member of a set is allowed before <cf/:/. Multiple commands are allowed without <cf/{}/ grouping.
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