Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > I swear if I didn't know anything about the feature and saw the syntax > "case a: .. case b:" I'd know exactly what it does in a millisecond. Why > would the syntax seem inconsistent to new D users? First of all, > inconsistent with what? And how would you treat the issue differently? > > > Andrei
I think something that might help is if you started using the syntax like this: > case a: > .. > case b: > blah Now it's clear that it represents a sequence of case labels where all but the first and last have been elided VERSUS representing a case label where the label is a range. I get the sneaking suspicion that the major problem people have with the syntax is that when you write "case a: .. case b:" all on one line, they treat it as the latter when they should be thinking in terms of the former; the various suggestions that have been made would seem to support this.