On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 18:56:47 UTC, JS wrote:
On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 17:45:11 UTC, w0rp wrote:
I can see you saving a little bit of typing with this, but it's
not worth it.
Um, it can actually save a lot of type and errors.
having two places to change is very error prone.
if (cond) { }
switch(cond)
If the condition is complex and one forgets it is the same
condition then only changing one block will cause bugs.
It is not a hard feature to have AND it is worth it because it
is a near zero complex compiler implementation.
So, depending on how you define "not worth it", which I take
"I'm too lazy to implement it", you could be correct.
If the implementation is so obviously trivial why don't you
implement a proof of concept? The compiler is open source after
all.
People routinely underestimate the ripple effect that adding
'trivial' extensions to a language can have on a language.
