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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: generalized switch
Message-ID: <2765@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 3-Aug-86 15:30:01 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  3 15:30:01 1986
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References: <15093@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <15093@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> kos@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Joshua Kosman) writes:
>	switch() {
>		case <boolean-expr>:
>		    etc.
>		}
>...
>Any ideas?

In C, such code is written:

	if ( bool_expr_1 )
		action_1
	else if ( bool_expr_2 )
		action_2
	else if ...
	else
		default_action

You could come up with some CPP macros for this, but why bother?