No case ranges in final switches?
Bekenn
leaveme at alone.com
Sun Mar 6 18:26:26 PST 2011
On 3/6/2011 1:11 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Do you know why final switches disallow case ranges? Case ranges are not bug-prone:
>
>
> void main() {
> ubyte u;
> final switch (u) {
> case 0: .. case 100:
> break;
> case 101: .. case 255:
> break;
> }
> }
>
Final switch is really just meant to be used with enums; since
enumeration values don't have to cover the whole range of possible base
type values, and enumeration values don't often have a natural ordering,
ranges make little sense there.
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