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Fix idiocy in previous patch

Thorsten Glaser tg@66h.42h.de
Sun Jul 17 14:23:00 GMT 2005 
Alexandre Oliva dixit:

>You can do that in C.  Just make the cases the `then' part of if(0)s:
>
>switch (foo)
>  {
>    case 0: prefix="hi";
>    if (0) { case 1: prefix="bye"; }
>    if (0) { case 2: prefix="ciao"; }
>      strcpy (buffer, "%s Nick", prefix);
>      break;
>  }
>
>then hope nobody ever has to look at this piece of code again :-)

evilwm does it like this.
>From event.c:

        if (c) {
                switch (key) {
                /* Sorry about all these if (0)s, but they actually
                 * *do* do something useful... */
[...]
                        break;
                case KEY_SLEFT:
                        c->width -= c->width_inc; if (0)
                case KEY_SDOWN:
                        c->height += c->height_inc; if (0)
                case KEY_SUP:
                        c->height -= c->height_inc; if (0)
                case KEY_SRIGHT:
                        c->width += c->width_inc;
                        if (c->width < 1)
                                c->width = 1;
                        if (c->height < 1)
                                c->height = 1;
                        moveresize(c);
                        break;
[...]

//mirabile
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