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From: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested
Message-ID: <2257@osc.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 90 01:44:35 GMT
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Reply-To: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
Organization: Object Sciences Corp., Menlo Park, CA
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In article <5260@drutx.ATT.COM> rrg@drutx.ATT.COM (GilmanRR) writes:
>switch (type) {
>    case A:		/* A, etc. are #define'd */
>        ...	/* do stuff for type A */
>        /* FALLTHROUGH */
>    case B:
>        if (type == B) {
>             ....	/* do B-only stuff */
>        }
>        /* FALLTHROUGH */
>    case C:
>        ...	/* do ABC stuff /*
>        break;
>    default:
>        ...
>}

A _real_ C programmer does it this way (try this in Ada):

switch (type)
{
 case A:
  /* A only stuff */
  if (0)
  case B:
    /* B only stuff */
  /* AB stuff */
  if (0)
  case C:
    /* C only stuff */
  /* ABC stuff */
}