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In article <4713rc$3d9@solutions.solon.com>, seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:
>In article <470ih7$mvh@gaia.ns.utk.edu>,
>Eric Lemings <elemings@unix1.utm.edu> wrote:
>>Why is the grammar specification for a 'switch' statement:
>>    switch ( expression ) statement
>>instead of:
>>    switch ( expression ) block

>A block is a kind-of-a statement.

True, but this doesn't answer why they did it.

>But the key is that you do not need
>the {}'s if there is only one case and one statement.

True, but this doesn't answer why they did it.

>For instance: (One of my entries in IOCCC.)

Now we know why they did it.

Next question is why they require parentheses when return and sizeof don't
require parentheses around the expression.  Next, why did they spell out
the word in full, and why did they waste two keywords (swit and case) when
they could have done it in one.
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