generalized switch

[Mike Schloss]

->[Discussion about switch versus if/elseif]
->> As I understand it, a switch/case setup compiles exactly the same as
->> 	if (var == const1) {.....};
->> 	else if (var == const2) {.....};
->> 	else  {default_action};
->> anyway. (Or am i wrong?).
->
->In a way.  They are the same in the sense that i=i+j and i+=j are the
->same.  The switch expression is evaluated only once, which can be
->important:
->
->	switch (*bufp++)

One other difference is that case statements are optimized by some compilers
to use jump tables and such so they can be much more efficient than repeated
if/else statements.