Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Scope of switch statements
Message-ID: <1989Nov9.200639.8868@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <15743@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 89 20:06:39 GMT

In article <15743@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael J Zehr) writes:
>is this obfuscated code not ANSI or is the compiler broken?  

It is legal, although ugly, ANSI C.  Also legal (but ugly) traditional C.
Dennis Ritchie himself has officially blessed this disgusting construct,
and indeed it has one or two legitimate uses.
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