Survey of "duplicate case in switch" errors

Bennett Todd bet at dukeac.UUCP
Wed Feb 8 03:30:50 AEST 1989


>HP-UX version 2.0 on a 9000/825 says this:
>
>cc: "test.c", line 13: error 1526: Duplicate case constant (5) in switch.
>
>Looks right to me, although sometimes I wish I *could* have duplicates.


Me too! What a great idea, duplicate case labels. It would make programming
non-deterministic finite state machines a piece of cake! Maybe we could get
X3J11 to add it in:-).

-Bennett



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