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Notes on the case statement
Author(s) -
Barth C. Wrandle
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380040313
Subject(s) - statement (logic) , computer science , programming language , problem statement , goto , linguistics , management science , philosophy , engineering
The case statement is one of the newest and one of the least known of the ‘standard’ control structures in higher level languages. Its importance has increased with the greater use of structured and goto‐less programming. This paper surveys the development of the case statement and provides two extensions which are natural and intuitive and which, it is claimed, increase the intellectual manageability of the host language.