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From: jay@isis.UUCP (Jay Batson)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Switch case common code
Message-ID: <799@isis.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Jun-86 11:45:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 11 11:45:22 1986
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Reply-To: jay@isis.UUCP (Jay Batson)
Organization: University of Denver Math and Computer Science
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In article <134@danews.UUCP> lvc@danews.UUCP (Larry Cipriani) writes:
>The 'best' I think that can be done is to do something like:
>	switch (switch_variable)
>	{
>	case a: ...
>		goto common;
>		break;
>	case b: ...
>	common:	common_code_for_a_and_b
>		break;
>	case c: ...
>		break;
>	}
>Gotos are usually abused, but I think the for/while stuff shown
>is just awful.  I think this is a lot easier to understand.  No ?

Yes.  Craig, you're bright, and you've helped me lots before.  But I
agree with Larry for _this_ question.  But, Craig's article _was_
an interesting posting, I'm sure all will agree.
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