While we're discussing abuse of switch, here's my personal best effort at misusing this feature, from over thirty years ago. /* * A program to print The T

While we're discussing abuse of switch, here's my personal best effort at misusing this feature, from over thirty years ago. /* * A program to print The Twelve Days of Christmas * using the C fall through case statement. * * Jim Williams, jim@maryland, 2 May 1986 (but first written ca. 1981) */ /* * If you have an ANSI compatible terminal then * #define ANSITTY. It makes the five Golden rings * especially tacky. */ #include <stdio.h> char *day_name[] = { "", "first", "second", "third", "fourth", "fifth", "sixth", "seventh", "eighth", "ninth", "tenth", "eleventh", "twelfth" }; int main() { int day; printf("The Twelve Days of Christmas.\n\n"); for (day = 1; day <= 12; day++) { printf("On the %s day of Christmas, my true love gave to me\n", day_name[day]); switch (day) { case 12: printf("\tTwelve drummers drumming,\n"); case 11: printf("\tEleven lords a leaping,\n"); case 10: printf("\tTen ladies dancing,\n"); case 9: printf("\tNine pipers piping,\n"); case 8: printf("\tEight maids a milking,\n"); case 7: printf("\tSeven swans a swimming,\n"); case 6: printf("\tSix geese a laying,\n"); case 5: #ifdef ANSITTY printf("\tFive ^[[1;5;7mGolden^[[0m rings,\n"); #else printf("\tFive Golden rings,\n"); #endif case 4: printf("\tFour calling birds,\n"); case 3: printf("\tThree French hens,\n"); case 2: printf("\tTwo turtle doves, and\n"); case 1: printf("\tA partridge in a pear tree.\n\n"); } } return 0; }