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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: switch break
Message-ID: <677@demott.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 90 20:22:39 GMT
References: <ENAG.90Oct4022413@hild.ifi.uio.no>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
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In article <ENAG.90Oct4022413@hild.ifi.uio.no> enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
>In article <1990Oct3.160403.517@Neon.Stanford.EDU> dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
>
>   Besides, it always seems silly to me to have to write break a dozen
>   times in a long switch to do what in my mind is the canonical 
>   operation.
>
>May I suggest
>
>	#define Case break; case

    Perhaps even better (because it won't annoy the maintenance
programmer) is to define yourself an editor macro called something like
"make-switch-case" which inserts the "case :<NL> and "break;" (properly
tabified, of course), and leaves your cursor in front of the colon.  This
does assume you are using a reasonable editor. 

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