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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: <13857@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Sep 90 19:14:19 GMT
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In article <740@garth.UUCP> fouts@bozeman.bozeman.ingr.UUCP (Martin Fouts) writes:
>The problem is hinted at by Doug Gwyn in his parenthetic comment
>"(These are numbers, not characters!)"  The portable solution is to
>define behavior for characters, thus ending the debate.

My point is that you switch on the value of an integer, not on a character.
There are already character classification mechanisms available, just not
using "switch".