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From: schwartz@barad-dur.endor.cs.psu.edu (Scott E. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language
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Date: 23 Feb 90 21:36:57 GMT
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In article <BITBUG.90Feb22221658@lonewolf.sun.com> James Buster writes:
>I claim that the possibly erroneous replication of code required by the Ada
>case statement, e.g.
>-- in approximate Ada style
>switch foo is
>    case 5 =>
>	statement1; statement2; statement3;
>    case 7 =>
>	statement1; statement2; statement3;
>end

Ada programmers would write this as:

  case foo is
    when 5 | 7 => statemen1; statement2; statement3;
  end case;

Next strawman?

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Scott Schwartz		schwartz@cs.psu.edu
"the same idea is applied today in the use of slide rules." -- Don Knuth