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From: mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Gotos are ok (Was Re: IMPLEMENT GOTO ACROSS MODULES IN TURBO PASCAL??)
Summary: CASE...
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Date: 19 Jan 91 14:59:31 GMT
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In article <21350@oolong.la.locus.com> jfr@locus.com (Jon Rosen) writes:
>In article <1991Jan18.151104.13742@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun) writes:
>>In article <2802@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> tswingle@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Tom Swingle) writes:

>>   [many lines deleted]

>..... CASE, ....[is a] highly disciplined
>structured constructs that, while containing branches, enforce a rigor that
>makes it less likely to have errors in the code... They have a beginning
>and an end....

And in the C programming language, lots of middles!-)

I'm aware this group is comp.lang.pascal, but what you say about
CASE sure isn't true in C, where each case usually needs a hidden
GOTO (i.e., BREAK) to get to the end of the CASE construct.

Aren't computer languages interesting?!
--Myron.
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