problems/risks due to programming language

[Steve Mawer]

In article <669 at mwtech.UUCP> martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>
>Finally I would like to add another experience with switch:
>Some day, I had written the following piece of code:
>	switch (x = getsound()) {
>	DING:	/*stuff*/
>		break;	<----- No, *this* was not missing
>	}
>Do you see, what is wrong with that?
>I did not write "case DING:" aso., so DING: was considered to be a
>goto-label (and as such had a different name space as enum names and
>the program compiled without errors).

Yeah, I saw someone spend *ages* finding out why his default case never
got executed.  Turned out he'd spelt it `defualt'.
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