Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > bearophile wrote: >> Jason House: >>> Hardly. There seemed to mostly be complaints about it with Andrei >>> saying things like "I can't believe you don't see the elegance of the >>> syntax". In the end, Andrei commented that he shouldn't involve the >>> community in such small changes and went silent.< >> >> He was wrong. Even very intelligent people now and then do the wrong >> thing. > > Of course the latter statement is true, but is in no way evidence > supporting the former. About the former, in that particular case I was > right. > > Andrei
Now, now. Let's all play nicely together... I don't like the `case a:..case b:` syntax. It doesn't matter. The functionality is in place and the syntax has a sane explanation and rationale. Unless there's some egregious problem aside from being a bit on the ugly side [1], it's just bike-shedding. And I'm so, SOOO sick of bike-shedding. Please, let's all just move on. [1] like me. My girlfriend disagrees with me on this, though. *I* think she's crazy, but I'm not exactly inclined to try and change her mind. :)