About switch case statements...

[KennyTM~]

On Nov 17, 09 02:37, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> KennyTM~ wrote:
>> 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
>
> (Just for precision's sake)
>
> median != average
>
> Andrei

The median of [1,3,4,10000] is 3.5.