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From: wm@ogccse.ogc.edu (Wm Leler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: goodbye cpp ???
Message-ID: <1907@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 88 20:56:34 GMT
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Reply-To: wm@ogccse.UUCP (Wm Leler)
Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR
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I don't think you could extend switch statements to work on strings,
since there is some ambiguity between whether you want to compare
the strings by comparing their contents (using strcmp) or by comparing
their pointers (a very reasonable thing to do).

wm