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  From: Dale Long <dalel@loftuscomp.com.au>
  To  : Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:41:17 +1030 (CST)

Re: strange C code

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Glen Turner wrote:
> > I think the thing of interest here is supposed to be the inclusion of
> > the "default" case at the first case, whereas it is traditionally listed
> > last.  C seems to do the logical thing here and do case 1, but other
> > languages (such as Ada) may have different results for equivalent code.
> 
> It's the logical thing if you are used to compiled languages.
> People used to interpreted languages would expect the "default"
> option to be executed.

Given an interpreted language, that would depend on how some languages
define a 'chunk' or block of code and what type of look-ahead they do.

Dale.

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