DIP19: Remove comma operator from D and provision better syntactic support for tuples

[Timon Gehr]

On 09/24/2012 01:36 AM, bearophile wrote:
> Timon Gehr:
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>> cases already introduce their own scopes in D,
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> Thank you, I didn't remember this.
>
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>> but switch cannot be extended well to serve such use cases.
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> Please explain, as I am not able to see the problems.
>

Switch is syntax sugar for jump tables. An adequate pattern matching
construct would not require explicit control flow statements, and it
would be an expression of arbitrary type.

> I have discussed that topic a little here:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=596
>
> Bye,
> bearophile