request switch statement with common block

[Andre Artus]

On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 19:22:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/3/2013 12:00 PM, JS wrote:
>> What I really don't get it is why people think that just 
>> because they won't use
>> such a feature then it must be useless to everyone else.
>
> You could provide supporting evidence by examining every use of 
> switch in the dmd, phobos, and druntime source code, and see 
> what percentage of those would benefit from your proposal.
>
> Consider, for example, the scope guard statement in D. It is 
> extremely useful - but it is an unusual form (doesn't exist in 
> other languages) and programmers just don't think in those 
> terms. Andrei & I constantly have to work at 'selling' the 
> benefits of it. It still hasn't really caught on.

The scope guard statement is my all-time favourite feature in D. 
It's so much easier to reason about than several layers of 
try/catch/finally.

A close second is the Contracts, especially as it can be applied 
to interfaces. a huge win for service oriented programming.