switch break

Jeffrey T. Hutzelman jh4o+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Sat Oct 6 05:55:24 AEST 1990


dkeisen at Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:

> In article <RVJJq3w163w at cybrspc> roy%cybrspc at cs.umn.edu (Roy
> M. Silvernail) writes:
>> Continue, though, is already a keyword for loop control. Giving it two
>> seperate and context-dependant tasks would, IMHO, _really_ screw
>> people up. 
>
> Break, though, is already a keyword for loop control. Giving it two
> separate and context-dependent tasks would, IMHO, _really_ screw
> people up.

Perhaps, but break already _has_ been given that meaning and plenty of C
programmers deal with it all the time with no problem, and, IMHO, it
makes sense.
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