Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Usually you're > all for adding features (hey, you just brought up the switch again! > isn't that ironic?) and cleaning up bad parts of the language,
Sorry, I'm not a computer scientist, and surely I am not a language designer (especially for a C++-class language), so you may see some contradictions in what I sometimes say :-) I have brought up the switch again because I was nervous, after spending some time to find a bug caused by the current design of the switch. There are classes of bugs that aren't easy to avoid, but I think with a less bug-prone switch I may avoid bugs like the one I have removed from my code. One of the most basic part of the Zen of D is to help programmers to avoid bugs, where possible. I hate the idea of having 3 different switches in the language (that's why I was not happy to see the static switch, because a better redesign of the *second* switch was in order). But the current situation of switch is not good for D yet. Bye, bearophile
