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Re: A challenge to the anti-goto

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From: John Hauser
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 02:45
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In article <BwxsF6.3DF@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
|
|extern B;
|n = 0; m = 0; b = B;
|{goto start;
| case 1:	n += 1;
| case 3:
| case 5:
| case 6:
 [etc.]
|
|Now I suspect that anyone not brainwashed, and knowing that braces are used to
|delimit blocks, and what switch means, can see the layout.

I'm trying.  But this has got to be about the chewiest goat ooze I've gnawed
on in a while.  Anyone want to give me a hint about how to interpret that
first string of disembodied `case's?

And if your compiler won't let you do basic formatting, Herman, I suggest
you toss it and get another.  I'm sure there are some that will.

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From: jhauser@pine.CS.Berkeley.EDU (John Hauser)
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Subject: Re: A challenge to the anti-goto
Date: 31 Oct 1992 02:45:43 GMT
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