Daniel Keep wrote:
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.
I've been keeping quiet on the subject to see how it plays out... Now
I've seen it written like this I'm sold! :D
