Re: Declarations in switches, errors

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1989 23:04

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In article <30540@news.Think.COM> barmar@kulla (Barry Margolin) writes:
>...why does the standard permit initializers in declarations at the head
>of a switch body, if they are required to be ignored?  ...

In fact, one can read the C++ Reference Manual (as of Stroustrup's book --
haven't seen the latest one) as forbidding such initializers.  While the
section on switch has the same old C wording, the section on goto is quite
firm that jumping past an initializer is forbidden.
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Declarations in switches, errors
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