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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: OH NO!! (Re: Standard Indentation etc.)
Message-ID: <655@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 89 18:11:34 GMT
References: <952@ardent.UUCP) <1098@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <828@wsccs.UUCP>
Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <828@wsccs.UUCP> wes@wsccs.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>From article <952@ardent.UUCP), by mec@outcast.ardent.com (Michael Chastain):
>) OK, here's my favorite switch statement:

   ...start of switch omitted....

>) 	case 1:
>) 		stmt;
>) 		goto LCase2;
>) 	case 2:
>) 	LCase2:
>) 		stmt;
>In article <1098@goofy.megatest.UUCP>, djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>How 'bout a USELESS GOTO ALERT!  If you remove the lines
>) 		goto LCase2;
>and
>) 	LCase2:
>
>the code does the same thing!  Whoever wrote this mess needs to get a job
>he/she/it can actually handle.


    Calm down.  Perhaps he was just being safe (i.e., in case someone was
    to later insert another case-label between case1 and case2).


    John Hascall
    ISU Comp Center