Inside the switch statement

[BCS]

Hello grauzone,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Hello grauzone,
>> 
>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/net.lang.c/msg/66008138e07aa94c
>>>> 
>>> Many people (even Brian Kernighan?) have said that the worst feature
>>> of C is that switches don't break automatically before each case
>>> label.
>>> 
>>> Oh god, that's from 1984, and even today we're struggling with this
>>> bullshit in the most modern dialect of C, D.
>>> 
>> I'm sorry, you don't have my sympathy on this one. There are to many
>> place I've used fall throught to chuck it out.
>> 
> What kind of fall-throughs were these?
> 
> A:
> 
> case value1:
> case value2:
> case valueN:
> code1();
> break;

I don't do that, I go with this form:

case value1, value2, valueN:
  code1();
  break;


case B, The most usefull case was where I used the switch as a "jump into 
the middle of this block of code" device.

> B:
> 
> case value1:
> code1();
> case value2:
> code2();
> break;