About switch case statements...

[KennyTM~]

On Nov 17, 09 01:40, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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

No way we'll need to write "goto case 3.5;" :p