switch case expressions

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Apr 23 14:04:16 PDT 2015


On Thursday, April 23, 2015 16:29:03 Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 4/23/15 4:25 PM, bearophile wrote:
> > Martin Krejcirik:
> >
> >> So, should the case b compile or not ? Is the spec too restrictive
> >> here, or is it a bug ?
> >
> > Apparently it's a WONTFIX mess. The spec should be updated.
> > Walter&Andrei refused to fix a design bug here.
>
> Source?
>
> IMO, the OP code does not warrant the errors cited.

Well, there's this mess

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6176

but I don't see anything in there from Walter or Andrei, so I'm not sure
what Bearophile is referring to. Personally though, I wish that case
statements only allowed compile-time constants... :|

- Jonathan M Davis



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