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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Thu,  8 Sep 2011 12:44:13 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] C question - completely OT,
	but I'd like to know the answer
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On Thursday 08 of September 2011 11:41:05 Winston Kodogo wrote:
> (stuff with switch/case)

btw., the semantics of switch/case in C are quite elastic; there's a neat u=
se=20
of it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffs_device

do/while interleaved with switch/case.
=20
=2D-=20
dexen deVries

[[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]]

=46or example, if the first thing in the file is:
   <?kzy irefvba=3D"1.0" rapbqvat=3D"ebg13"?>
an XML parser will recognize that the document is stored in the traditional=
=20
ROT13 encoding.

(( Joe English, http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/faq-not.txt ))