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Switch switch

#3612
From: Jim Fleming
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 07:21
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Has there been any consideration given to relaxing the type requirements
for the C switch statement expression...???

	switch (<integral expression>){
	case <integral constant>:
		...
	default:
	}

Does anyone want to be able to write....???

	switch (aString) {
		...
	case "hello":
		...
		break;
	case "world":
		...
		break;
	}

Are there any compiler vendors that limit the number of case statements
to 257...which is permitted and essentially a char...???

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From: jim.fleming@bytes.com (Jim Fleming)
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Subject: Switch switch
Date: 2 Aug 1995 07:21:58 GMT
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