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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Proposed Enhancement to select/case (yes, I know...)
Message-ID: <13714@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Aug 90 21:43:36 GMT
References: <BURLEY.90Aug30030645@world.std.com> <1990Aug30.164610.3519@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Aug30.164610.3519@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <BURLEY.90Aug30030645@world.std.com> burley@world.std.com (James C Burley) writes:
>>... how about this: allow ranges (and, perhaps, lists) on case statements.
>Such a feature appeared in one draft of ANSI C, and disappeared in the
>next.  I believe the reason was the usual:  there was no implementation
>experience with it, and it was a minor convenience rather than a solution
>to a serious problem.

That's why it vanished.  Although it was before my time, I heard that
the reason it appeared was that the preceding X3J11 meeting was held in
Europe and was overrun with Pascal freaks.  The Pascalisms were removed
at the next meeting, where C freaks dominated.