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Article #481Re: Proposed Enhancement to select/case (yes, I know...)
From: Karl Heuer
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 1990 00:33
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 1990 00:33
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In article <1420@lupine.NCD.COM> rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) writes: >Regarding "case lists", it seems clear that a simple syntax, i.e.: > case FOO,BAR: >won't work because the separator comma could be parsed as the normal comma >operator, which would mess up everything. It would mean that, in the unlikely event that the user *wants* a comma operator in a case label, he has to parenthesize the expression. No different from the existing situation with function arguments or initializer lists, except that it's a minor incompatibility with the existing language. >Right. Given that this feature has already been in g++ for some time, >you may consider it "prior art". Is there any particular reason this got added to g++ but not gcc? It would seem to be equally useful in both. Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!ima!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++,comp.std.c Subject: Re: Proposed Enhancement to select/case (yes, I know...) Message-ID: <17629@haddock.ima.isc.com> Date: 5 Sep 90 00:33:22 GMT References: <BURLEY.90Aug30030645@world.std.com> <1420@lupine.NCD.COM> Reply-To: karl@kelp.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302 Lines: 18