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September blog post 2: The curious case of the switch statement (Patreon)

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2016-09-19 04:49:09

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https://eev.ee/blog/2016/09/18/the-curious-case-of-the-switch-statement/

I have no idea why I decided to write about this, but I found out some interesting things!

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The curious case of the switch statement / fuzzy notepad

Since the first statement is a regular assignment, the right-hand side is evaluated immediately. The paper doesn't delve very deeply into this, but since labels were first-class values, you could presumably choose a label using whatever logic you wanted and then jump to it.