switch case for constants-only?

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Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> 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.
> It's different. It breaks convention.

PHP allows runtime vars as cases in switch. Though whether anybody round
here considers PHP a real language is another matter.

I'm in favour; requiring the case statements to be constants seem
to be an optimisation requirement, rather than there being some actual
reason for it.

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