Re: Scope of switch statements

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1989 20:06

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In article <15743@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael J Zehr) writes:
>is this obfuscated code not ANSI or is the compiler broken?  

It is legal, although ugly, ANSI C.  Also legal (but ugly) traditional C.
Dennis Ritchie himself has officially blessed this disgusting construct,
and indeed it has one or two legitimate uses.
-- 
A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
megabyte of flaming.           | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Scope of switch statements
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