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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: default case
Message-ID: <25516@cup.portal.com>
Date: 31 Dec 89 09:46:22 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Is it too late to make suggestions for ANSI C?  I'd like to see
the following added to C:

	The keyword "case" can be followed by the keyword
	"default" to indicate the default case.  This is
	in addition to the current method of just saying
	"default".

The reason I want this is because it makes it possible for the
compiler to notice when you misspell "default".  I has a switch
statement and I used "defualt" for the default case, and the
compiler correctly took this as a label.  It took quite a while
to track this down.

Note that this would not break any existing code.

						Tim Smith