How to complex switch?

[dennis luehring]

Am 12.05.2011 14:58, schrieb Matthew Ong:
> Denise, please note that I did not say it could not be done with if-else chain,

that is clear

> but switch makes some logical writing easier

in simple/trivial cases, and when i becomes more complex
you switch back to inner case ifs

 > and code generation processing easier.

i don't see the point here - and i've written masses of codegens

> Some of the valid reason:
> 1) Less key stroke
> 2) Easier code generator to implement ( switch case can be processed by awk like
> script with marker like 'case' and 'break'.

did you see the string mixin feature before?

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/mixin.html

no outer (parsing) generator needed anymore (with small exceptions) :)