Duff's device

Just wondering:

as PHP syntax is heavily based on C syntax i was curious if it 
would accept this code snippet:



  <?php

  $to="";
  $from="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
  $count=12;

  $n = ($count + 7) / 8;      
  $i=0;
     switch ($count % 8)
     {
     case 0:        do {  $to .= $from{$i++};
     case 7:              $to .= $from{$i++};
     case 6:              $to .= $from{$i++};
     case 5:              $to .= $from{$i++};
     case 4:              $to .= $from{$i++};
     case 3:              $to .= $from{$i++};
     case 2:              $to .= $from{$i++};
     case 1:              $to .= $from{$i++};
                        } while (--$n > 0);
     }

  echo $to;

  ?>



sure enugh it didn't although the C equvalent is indead legal

-> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Duff's-device.html

  ;)

-- 
Hartmut Holzgraefe  [email protected]  http://www.six.de  +49-711-99091-77