Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Declarations in switches, errors Message-ID: <11186@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 29 Sep 89 21:45:35 GMT References: <561@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <10041@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <1202@virtech.UUCP> <11173@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1211@virtech.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 6 In article <1211@virtech.UUCP> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes: >One does not "conceptualize" the initialization as an execution. Then one has the wrong mental model. Auto initialization is to all extents and purposes execution of an assignment statement. It therefore differs radically from static initialization, which is what your model fits.