Delphi-PRAXiS - The case of a missing begin/end

Delphi never stops surprising me …

Did you know that this is a valid syntax?

case a of
0: Writeln(0);
else
Writeln('else');
Writeln(a);
end;
This code indeed compiles and works exactly as the following fragment.

case a of
0: Writeln(0);
else begin
Writeln('else');
Writeln(a);
end;
end;
I personally would never drop begin/end inside a case/else statement, but at least someone must disagree. I found such example in a very (VERY!) old code (it was written for Delphi 2) and I was quite surprised that it compiles at all.

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