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Subject: Re:  A good use of a bad feature
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Date: Sun, 4-May-86 11:49:02 EDT
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	While discussing various features and miss-features of C
	with my friend Charley (mangoe) Wingate recently, we both
	agreed that the fall through case statement is among the least
	defensible of C's features.  
	
	Jim \/\/illiams
	jim@mimsy.umd.edu
	umcp-cs!jim.UUCP
	
You will find much disagreement on that point, I'm afraid. Fall thru is
more flexible. You can always break, but often cases are related so that
a particular case requires a superset of another case. It is to DMR's
credit that he realized this feature. I sure wouldn't have thought of it.

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell		<rbj@cmr>
	"One man gathers what another man spills"