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From: gorpong@telxon.UUCP (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Lisp-style comments
Summary: Cannot Break out of loop inside case ....
Message-ID: <42@telxon.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 18:03:41 GMT
References: <3851@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <10150@smoke.BRL.MIL> <964@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
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In article <964@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>, jeremyr@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) writes:
> 
> > [much talk of // comments]
> 
> [BCPL stuff on // comments]
> 
> On a slightly different note, why did the same people choose to make
> BCPL's break and endcase both be called break in C, losing the ability
> to break out of loops while inside a case clause?
> 
> Jeremy Roussak

Jeremy, you can always break out of a loop from within a case.  C does allow
the (-: goto :-).

		-- Gordon.
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