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From: scm@dlcq15.datlog.co.uk (Steve Mawer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language
Message-ID: <1990Mar7.123351.19788@dlcq15.datlog.co.uk>
Date: 7 Mar 90 12:33:51 GMT
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Reply-To: scm@dlcq15.datlog.co.uk (Steve Mawer)
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In article <669@mwtech.UUCP> martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>
>Finally I would like to add another experience with switch:
>Some day, I had written the following piece of code:
>	switch (x = getsound()) {
>	DING:	/*stuff*/
>		break;	<----- No, *this* was not missing
>	}
>Do you see, what is wrong with that?
>I did not write "case DING:" aso., so DING: was considered to be a
>goto-label (and as such had a different name space as enum names and
>the program compiled without errors).

Yeah, I saw someone spend *ages* finding out why his default case never
got executed.  Turned out he'd spelt it `defualt'.
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