default case
Tim W Smith
ts at cup.portal.com
Sun Dec 31 20:46:22 AEST 1989
Is it too late to make suggestions for ANSI C? I'd like to see
the following added to C:
The keyword "case" can be followed by the keyword
"default" to indicate the default case. This is
in addition to the current method of just saying
"default".
The reason I want this is because it makes it possible for the
compiler to notice when you misspell "default". I has a switch
statement and I used "defualt" for the default case, and the
compiler correctly took this as a label. It took quite a while
to track this down.
Note that this would not break any existing code.
Tim Smith
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