switch case for constants-only?

[BCS]

Hello Ellery,

> On 12/05/2009 04:19 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 
>> "Ellery Newcomer"<ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu>  wrote in message
>> 
>>> More so than remembering to type break after each case block?
>>> 
>> Good point, but that's really a separate issue.
>> 
> I don't know about that. The issue seems to be you want switch to
> behave
> in a manner unlike that of any other language that I know of.

Lisp has something that workd like this. (Not that I think D should change.)

> It's different. It breaks convention.
> It's a useful divergence. It's a feature that should exist. But I
> contend it makes more sense to make a new construct which *is*
> equivalent to a certain pattern of nested ifs (switch isn't) and
> incorporate your feature into that than to shoehorn it into switch.

vote += 0.1;