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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: goto's in C: an opinion...
Message-ID: <937@geac.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 23:53:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: geac.937
Posted: Fri Jul 17 23:53:47 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 19:55:14 EDT
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Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Brown)
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Summary: Necessary, due to misfeatures.


  It is as much a design problem as a style issue: the same
keyword is used to exit a switch as a loop, therefore making
it impossible to exit a loop from said switch.... Unless you 
really distort things and use continue to mean "don't break".
  B had the same problem, not unexpectedly.
-- 
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