Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Silly syntax
Keywords: just for grins
Message-ID: <1246@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 89 13:19:13 GMT
References: <9604@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
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Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc
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In article <9604@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>, bobc@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Bob Calbridge) writes:
> 	switch (expression) {
> 		case f1():	do_this();
> 
> where f1...fn() may be functions that evaluate circumstances and return an
> integer or get input from the user and return an integer.

This is not allowed.  The expression in a case statement MUST be a constant
expression.  A function call is not a constant.

It looks like you are back to the old if-then-else stuff.

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