Declarations in switches, errors

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1211 at virtech.UUCP> cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>One does not "conceptualize" the initialization as an execution.

Then one has the wrong mental model.  Auto initialization is to all extents
and purposes execution of an assignment statement.  It therefore differs
radically from static initialization, which is what your model fits.