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In article <879@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>I tried thrice mailing this guy, including the path(!) he gave
>in his signature. Couldn't IBM afford to be better connected?
Tell me about it!  It is truly a pain.  Work is being done to fix the
problem, but for now we suffer.

>Tony Sanders (sanders@sanders.austin.ibm.com) writes:
>>[C switch example without breaks to be coded in ADA]

>Cross you heart, how often in practical programming do you
Suffice it to say I have used them to write readable code that is
easier to understand than a myrid if statements.  Once would be
enough.

>write such code?  And how often compared to normal switch
>statements where an easily elided break would introduce
>a simple bug?
It's exactly that "a simple bug", easy to dectect and easy to fix,
all bugs should be this simple.  It's no more challanging than forgetting a
semicolon.  Why DO we have all those stupid ;'s?

-- sanders                          The 11th commandment: "Thou shalt use lint"
For every message of the day, a new improved message will arise to overcome it.
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