bearophile wrote:
Bill Baxter:
Agreed. If you tell someone a .. b means a non-inclusive range
from a to b, then ask them to guess what blarf a .. blarf b means,
I would be very surprised if many guessed "inclusive range from blarf
a to blarf b".
Thank you for nicely expressing one of the critics I was trying to express.
(My other problem is that I'd like a more general syntax).
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A different simple solution can be:
case a .. b+1:
That requires no new syntax.
Bye,
bearophile
void classify(char c) {
write("You passed ");
switch (c) {
case '#':
writeln("a hash sign.");
break;
case '0' .. case '9':
writeln("a digit.");
break;
case 'A' .. case 'Z': case 'a' .. case 'z':
writeln("an ASCII character.");
break;
case '.', ',', ':', ';', '!', '?':
writeln("a punctuation mark.");
break;
default:
writeln("quite a character!");
break;
}
}
Cool!
void classify(char c) {
write("You passed ");
switch (c) {
case '#':
writeln("a hash sign.");
break;
case '0' .. '9'+1:
writeln("a digit.");
break;
case 'A' .. 'Z'+1: case 'a' .. 'z'+1:
writeln("an ASCII character.");
break;
case '.', ',', ':', ';', '!', '?':
writeln("a punctuation mark.");
break;
default:
writeln("quite a character!");
break;
}
}
Awful!
Andrei
