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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
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Subject: Re: Seven Original Sins of K&R (Long)
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Date: 2 Oct 90 23:50:38 GMT
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In article <1990Sep26.134716.17540@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>Well, in a C-like language WHERE THE CASES DIDN'T FALL THROUGH
>you could write:
>>switch(x) {
>>	case 1:
>>		for (i=0; i < 10; i++)
>                goto 2;
>>	case 2:
>>		printf("%d ",i);

Which, of course, prints out 0 *only*, which is not what the original did at
all (although, I will admit, the original wasn't very clever, interesting,
novel, obfuscated, but it was rather stupid).

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