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From: jenings@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (Byron T. Jenings Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Another question...
Message-ID: <7180003@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Sep 89 22:35:59 GMT
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|/ hpfclp:comp.lang.c++ / gww@bbn.com (George Williams) / 12:18 pm  Aug 15, 1989 /
|7) What is the scope of (and when do destructors get called on:)
|	switch(i) {
|	case 1:
|	    String q(10);
|	case 2:
|	    String j(10);
|	default:
|	    String k(10);
|	}

The easiest way to think of this is that the labels in a case statement
are just like any other C label, and {} blocks are the same as any other
block.  You can think of the "switch" as expanding into a bunch of "if
(i == XXX) then goto XXX;" statements.

This means that the scope of each variable extends from the declaration
down to the closing curly, as usual.