Feature Request: Label assignment / type

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
news:fhnd3k$s31$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> Perfect hashes can/are also be used for that, no?
> I'm curious how DMD handles string switches.
>
> switch(name) {
>    case "bob":
>         break;
>    case "betty":
>         break;
>    case "barney":
>         break;
>    ...
> }
>
> I imagine something clever is possible to make that really efficient. But 
> I wouldn't be surprised if it generated code similar to a regular 
> if-then-else.

You can see the code for it in dmd/src/phobos/internal/switch.d.  It just 
does a binary search on a sorted array.