Suggestion: new switch statement

[mike]

Hi!

If I may comment on that - I think that fits perfectly into the syntax.  
Think of that:

' class foo
' {
'     // you can write public in 3 different ways
'     public int x;
'     public
'     {
'         int y;
'     }
'     public:
'         int z;
' }

Why not something similar with switch?

' switch (i)
' {
'     // you could write case in 3 different ways too
'     case 1 writefln("case 1");
'     case 2
'     {
'         writefln("case 2");
'     }
'     case 3:
'         writefln("case 3");
'         break;
' }

That would be really nice of one has lots of 1-line switch cases. I'd like  
that very much.

-Mike

Am 21.08.2006, 13:05 Uhr, schrieb Kristian <kjkilpi at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:06:49 +0300, Jeff <psychobrat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How about allowing:
>>
>> switch (val) {
>>      case (1) {
>> 	doX();
>>      } case (2, 3) {
>>          doY();
>>      } default {
>>          doZ();
>>      }
>> )
>>
>> Or would this create some horrible syntactic ambiguities? Or, on the  
>> other hand, it could just be too damn ugly. ;)
>
> Actually I also thought about that very syntax. :) However, I guess that  
> there are people out there that are not so fond of having more curly  
> brackets... In a way it'd fit the structure of the language, though.
>
> But, as you mentioned, it could confuse people and generate more bugs.  
> Also note that this is ok in D:
>
> void func(int val) {
>      switch(val) {
>          case 1:
>              doX();
>              break;
>
>          case 2:
>              {
>              int b = 2;  //a local variable inside a block
>              doY(b);
>              }
>              break;
>      }
> }
>
> So, I think it would be better just use different statement. (And for a  
> compiler, it'd be simple to implement.)
>
>
> Heheh, I just tested the switch statement, and guess what? I forgot to  
> put the break statements at the end of cases...!!



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