Declarations in switches, errors

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <10041 at xanth.cs.odu.edu>, kremer at cs.odu.edu (Lloyd Kremer) writes:
> No, a switch statement is entered by a jump to a label.  The jump is to
> any one of several places depending on which "case" is true, but an automatic
> initialization at the start of a switch statement is never performed.  The
> variable is brought into scope within the switch block, but the initial
> contents of the variable are garbage.

If this is the standard, I think it is broken.  If the compiler allows 
a variable declaration, it should allow an initialization.








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