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[2607:f8b0:400d:c09::233]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o7si3526009qkb.380.2017.08.09.10.40.38 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:40:38 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of olafvdspek@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:400d:c09::233 as permitted sender) client-ip=2607:f8b0:400d:c09::233; Original-Received: by mail-qk0-x233.google.com with SMTP id x191so39933115qka.5 for ; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:40:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.55.159.21 with SMTP id i21mr10453962qke.27.1502300438651; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:40:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.12.174.87 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Aug 2017 10:40:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Original-Sender: olafvdspek@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=hr26Yam3; spf=pass (google.com: domain of olafvdspek@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:400d:c09::233 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=olafvdspek@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list std-proposals@isocpp.org; contact std-proposals+owners@isocpp.org List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 399137483710 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals:33732 Archived-At: 2017-08-09 19:08 GMT+02:00 Tony V E : >> switch (s) >> { >> case "A": >> case "B": >> default: >> } >> > > I've seen C code do this, where s was a char *. (And s was typically > pointing to static chars, like s = "B") > So you have a pointer s, which is just an int, right? > And all the cases are compile/link time constants... > I'm not sure that was valid C, but it worked. Many years ago. Ah, so all I need to do is switch (s.c_str())? ;) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ISO C++ Standard - Future Proposals" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to std-proposals+unsubscribe@isocpp.org. To post to this group, send email to std-proposals@isocpp.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/d/msgid/std-proposals/CAA7U3HNS9zbt3HnOQYjgpRDvU3czYFgdPDfOo%3DV%3D8WmKB%2ByQOA%40mail.gmail.com. .