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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.
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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.