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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: the default of a switch
Message-ID: <9828@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Mar 89 16:26:50 GMT
References: <10833@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <10833@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> klatchko@cory.Berkeley.EDU (ron klatchko) writes:
>In a C switch statement, if you have a 'default' part, does it have 
>to go below all the 'case' parts?

It's just one of several possible labels in the switch body; the labels
can appear on any statement.

>As a matter of style, I know it should, ...

Not necessarily.  There are times when the default case is better dealt
with first.