Case staments not collapsable in visual D

Rainer Schuetze r.sagitario at gmx.de
Sat Nov 3 08:22:34 UTC 2018



On 30/10/2018 16:25, Michelle Long wrote:
> On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 07:48:28 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 29/10/2018 03:23, Michelle Long wrote:
>>> can't collapse/fold a case statement in the editor for some reason ;/
>>
>> Makes sense, but you cannot do this neither in C++ nor C# aswell. I
>> guess that it is this way because semantically "cases" are not
>> statement blocks, but just labels.
>>
>> BTW: bug reports and enhancements requests are less likely to be
>> forgotten when added to the bug tracking system:
>> https://issues.dlang.org/ (component visuald).
> 
> case statements are blocks. They might not be represented as such but
> they are semantically the same as blocks. The representation is
> irrelevant. Since, in D, every case must end with a break or return or
> throw, it means that the next case terminates the block automatically.
> 
> So, all that needs to be done, if it is possible is to collapse
> everything up to the next case statement or terminal }.

> 
> One could make it general for labels so one could collapse any label
> statement. Simply terminate up to the next label and or }.

I wasn't arguing against this, filed an enhancement request:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19351



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