Extend D's switch statement?

Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 10 14:37:09 PDT 2015


On 07/10/2015 12:50 AM, Vlad Levenfeld wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 16:08:37 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 07/09/2015 04:17 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>> On 07/09/2015 02:54 PM, rsw0x wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> someone was willing to produce.
>>>
>>> Someone is often willing to produce awkward language quirks, so I think
>>> being critical of new additions has some value.
>>
>> E.g.
>>
>> "Note: Cannot swap values by tuple assignment.
>>
>> int x = 1, y = 2;
>> {x, y} = {y, x};
>> // Lowered to:
>> // x = y, y = x;
>> assert(y == 2);
>> assert(x == 2);"
>>
>> No, please.
>
> Couldn't this could be detected at compile-time and temporary variables
> created?

Oh, it certainly is simple to fix, it's just that we don't want this 
sort of thing to make it into the language specification.


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