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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The final word on GOTO (Don't I wis
Summary: Neat, but not the same
Message-ID: <867@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 89 15:49:39 GMT
References: <6396@ficc.uu.net> <725@thor.wright.EDU> <6430@ficc.uu.net> <4447@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <4447@buengc.BU.EDU>, bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:

|  I'd go out of my way to fix it so that I could just do
|  
|  	switch(format_char) {
|  	    case 'd': the stuff I put under d; break;
|  	    case 'o': the stuff I put under o; break;
|  	    case 'x': the stuff I put under x; break;
|  	    case 'u': the stuff I put under u; break;
|  	}
|  
|  	the stuff I put under donum;

  This doesn't do the same thing at all. In the original the "donum:"
code was only executed if a case was matched in the switch. Your example
executes it everytime. As you mentioned but didn't show you would have
to define a bunch of flags and stuff to make this work.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon