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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language
Message-ID: <16025@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 26 Feb 90 04:11:22 GMT
References: <2903@goanna.oz.au> <12134@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <4611@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <4611@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jseidman@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (James Seidman) writes:
>[Because of a problem with accidentally writing `foo:' for `case foo:', where
>`foo' is an identifier denoting an enum constant,] Labeled statements inside
>a case statement would be a nice addition to lint

Unnecessary.  Each of SysV lint, BSD lint, and gcc -Wall will already issue at
least one warning for this.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.ima.isc.com or harvard!ima!karl), The Walking Lint