Re: [Ming-dev] switch/default compiler bug

[strk <st...@ke...>]

See also this thread:

http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2006-December/177541.h=
tml

I suggest we always ask there.. got 5 replies in about one hour..

--strk;

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:06:24AM -0500, Stuart Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Albrecht Kleine wrote:
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> >Hi,
> >
> >>the macromedia translation of switch is a series of if/else statement=
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> >>I have never tried how
> >
> >Unfortunately my German version of Moock=B4s little Actionscript book =
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> >& gut") by OReilly
> >does not exactly show whether an early "default:"  is a syntax error o=
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> >not.
> >If not, the compiled code should be independent of the "default:"-=20
> >position (IMHO).
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> I just had someone perform a test w/ the IDE, and an early "default:" i=
s
> not a syntax error, and it does behave in the manner that C programmers
> would expect.
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> So in the original code:
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> i=3D0;                           // 0
> switch (i)
> {
> default: y=3D99;break;
> case  0: y=3D10;break;        // 0 -> 10
> }
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> The value for y should be 10, not 99.
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