Bill Baxter:
> Switch is a monstrosity pretty much any way you look at it. Sh had the right
> idea there. Is "case" really necessary there? Some syntax should
> suffice I would thing. And "default" is probably the world's most
> useless keyword. Why not "else:" or "*:" instead of introducing a
> whole new keyword?
Case of Pascal is better (2 keywords where "of" isn't that useful, begin-end
are optional if you want more than one instruction, Pascal isn't
case-sensitive):
Case X of
1: Begin
...
End;
2 .. 10: Begin
...
End;
...
Else Begin
...
End;
End; {CASE}
But D is backward compatible with C (unlike languages like Scala, that
eventually D will need to take a look at), so this is an academic topic.
Bye,
bearophile
