OT: Do you realise how harsh your posts often appear to people?
I often
find I need to restrain myself when replying to your blunt
dismissals of
peoples opinions/suggestions.
So, you admit that this is a disaster site, but are reluctant
to consider
what good may come of it?
I'm not suggesting to move the rubble around a bit, I'm
suggesting a missed
opportunity to build something new and useful from the rubble.
There are like, 5 control statements in the language; if, for,
while,
foreach, switch. To trivialise their importance is surprising.
switch is basically the same in D as in C, which kinda finds a
purpose here
and there, but it's built on a rubbish foundation. I can
imagine switch (or
something like it) being _extremely_ useful to address whole
new classes of
problems (like match in rust and others) if it were just a
little bit less
shit.
And it is shit, it's barely better than C; it's verbose, nobody
knows how
to format 'case' statements, it always seems to violate
formatting
standards whenever it's used (disagrees with all code
everywhere else),
programmers always seem to disagree on how it should be.
In my opinionated opinion, it always seems to look ugly, and
unnecessarily
verbose.
The ugliness of the syntax makes it an unattractive choice for
application
to many problems where it may have otherwise been applicable,
simplifying
code, and making the code more readable and understandable at a
glance.
The switch statement was obviously initially designed to
improve clarity;
anything that can be done with a switch statement can easily be
done with a
series of if's (if you love squinting at comparative conditions
and
constant repetition of the terms being compared), and it
probably did
improve clarity, in 1970's...
But I think we could do much better, and offer an interesting
and useful
construct that could be used to clarify code in far more
locations than it
ever sees use today.
And do you realise that every sentence in your post is matter
your your persona taste. It is extremely subjective, and you
provide no proof that majority of people who are interested in
all this share your opinion, do you? Do not get me wrong, I am
not defending Andrei here (he can defend himself better than me).
It is just shocking sometimes what kind of non-sense is posted
here.
Let me dodge back few quotes of your post back at you to think
about what I said in the paragraph above:
1) "built on a rubbish foundation"
2) "less shit" (no comment here...!)
3) "nobody knows how to format 'case' statements" (well, if you
do not know, there are people who do)
4) "The ugliness of the syntax" (again your own taste)
If you scan your own post(s), you will find many examples of what
I am saying. This attitude of yours won't get you far.
