On Thursday 21 November 2013 09:50:30 Michael Schnell wrote: > On 11/21/2013 12:42 AM, Sieghard wrote: > > That's a rather silly statement. > > > > Can you describe an implementation of a jump table mechanism using > > non-constant positions for its entries? > > If or if not jump tables are used is up to the compiler. A case _syntax_ > easily can be done with non-constants. Regarding the _language_ it's > nothing but an not necessary restriction to disallow them. > IMO in 'case' statement it should be guaranteed that semantic is independent of order of items. With variable case labels this is not possible.
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