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From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] parser for mount options
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    From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>

    On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

    >     while (more_tokens) {
    >         t = type_of_next_token();
    >         switch (t) {
    >         case ...
    >         }
    >     }
    > 
    > where the type_of_next_token() does the parsing, and the switch
    > does the assigning. Much more code. Much uglier - but tastes differ.

    I would agree, if in all cases it was about assigning a single value.
    It isn't.

It was for 1.3.61. What cases have we now that are more complicated?