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From: rblieva@cs.vu.nl (Roemer b Lievaart)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: goto's and switch statements -- mild proposal
Message-ID: <865@tjalk.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 13:32:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 17 13:32:35 1987
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Reply-To: rblieva@cs.vu.nl (Roemer B. Lievaart)
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In article <298@auvax.UUCP> rwa@auvax.UUCP (Ross Alexander) writes:
[...]
>
>A long time ago, when I was young and dinosaurs roamed the woods, I did
>some hacking in a dialect of B called B+ (Reinhaldo de Braga, take a bow).
>It supported a construct in case labels that we called 'a range case'.
>it looked something like
>
>	case 'a' - 'z' : <your code here>
>
[...]

Ah, yes! Don't we all get bored of typing:
case 'A': case 'B': case 'C':  .... etc until case 'Z':  ?

However, " case 'a' - 'z': " means ofcourse " case -25: " we probably had
better used something like '..' here (well, not *everything* in C should
be different from Pascal, should it? :-) )
I really would like to see the possibility to write " case 'A'..'Z': "
and probably also " case 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z': ".  As already was pointed
out, the comma-operator is useless (and not allowed?) in constant
expressions, and the comma having two meanings already, who
cares for a third. All the other strange characters on my keyboard
that are not used (as operators) in C, don't seem to qualify for the
job. [ @`\# ]
Well, just an idea. It's just that I get sore fingers, sometimes.

				-- Roemer, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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