About switch case statements...

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> I was hoping the lesson learned would be to fix switch as was suggested.
>>> I checked, because it wasn't written in the way I usually write things,
>>> and sure enough it wasn't code I wrote :-)
>>>
>>>  From the changelog for D 0.129: "Incorporated Ben Hinkle's new std.format
>>> which can print general arrays."
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog1.html#new0129
>> So people are liable to make the mistake.
>>
>> Andrei
>>
> 
> What about when you want to fall through to a multiple label?  Or a range label?
> 
> case 0:
>     // do stuff
>     goto case ??;
> case 1: .. case 9:
>      // do more stuff
>      goto case ??;
> case 10,20,30:
>      // still more stuff
> 
> The obvious answer would seem to be just "pick any one".
> I just bring it up because I haven't seen that ... uh case ...
> mentioned by anyone.
> 
> --bb

You must pick the median :o).

Andrei