problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested

[Tony Sanders]

In article <8218 at hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu at hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>   So is a multi-alternative case, as provided by Ada:
How do you do this in ADA?

    switch(n) {
      case 0:
	count++;
      case 1:
	ocount++;
      case 2:
	printf("%d %d\n",count,ocount);
	break;
      default:
	printf("unknown n\n");
	break;
    }

See how I left out the breaks on purpose.

In ADA you wouldn't be able to do this without duplicating either the
case-expression (they aren't always simple numbers) or the statements.

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