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From: chittamu@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Satish Kumar .C)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language
Message-ID: <751@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 90 22:05:25 GMT
References: <1597@awdprime.UUCP> <8133@hubcap.clemson.edu> <10839@june.cs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: chittamu@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Satish Kumar .C)
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In article <10839@june.cs.washington.edu> machaffi@fred.cs.washington.edu.cs.washington.edu (Scott MacHaffie) writes:
>In article <8133@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>>   common practice to use break statements by the dozen in order to get 

>switch (x) {
>	case '0': case '1': ... case '9':
>		digit(x);
>		break;
>}
>
>ADA-C:
>switch (x) {
>	case '0': digit(x);
>	case '1': digit(x);
>	...
>	case '9': digit(x);
>}
>		Scott MacHaffie

Give me a break. In Ada, you would actually write it as

case x 
 when '0' | '1' | '2' =>
     digit(x) ;
end case;

I am sure one can come up with a reasonable syntax for the equivalent
in "Ada-C".

No personal offense intended, but if the only argument you have for
C needing breaks on a case is that you need to write only one action,
then all I can say is it is positively absurd.

-- 
	-Satish.
	chittamu@cs.umass.edu
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