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CBFalconer < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > writes:


Which completely and utterly misses the point.

The article that started this thread was a proposal to allow
non-constant case expressions. anon's point was that it would then
become impossible (or nearly so) to maintain the property that all
case expressions in a switch statement must have distinct values.
Your "correction" is valid C, but pointless; you might as well have
posted "int main(void) { }".


Perhaps, but the topic of the thread is a proposed change to both C
and C++. Arguably the comp.std.* groups would have been better, but I
think comp.std.c++ is more or less dead these days. Since switch
statements have the same syntax and semantics in C and C++, it's not
entirely unreasonable to discuss a proposed change in both.

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