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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The D Programming Language: switches
Message-ID: <2772@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 15:56:04 GMT
References: <222965b9@ralf.home> <941@micomvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Ashton-Tate Corporation, East Hartford Development Center
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In article <941@micomvax.UUCP> ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) writes:
>Case statements should just be generalised into a "shorthand" way of
>stating if...elseif...elseif...else...

Permit me to register my strong disagreement.  if...elseif...elseif...else...
should be written:

if (...) {
	...
} else if (...) {
	...
} else if (...) {
	...
} else {
	...
}

(positioning the brackets as you see fit.  Please let's not start *that*
discussion again!)

Computer languages don't need two equally attractive ways to say the same
thing.
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Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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