switch case for constants-only?

[Steven E. Harris]

BCS <none at anon.com> writes:

> Lisp has something that workd like this.

Did you mean the "case" family¹ of forms?

,----
| CL-USER> (case 3
|            (1 "foo")
|            (2 "bar")
|            (otherwise "baz"))
| "baz"
| CL-USER> (case 4
|            (1 "foo")
|            ((2 4) "bar")
|            (otherwise "baz"))
| "bar"
`----

There's also the similar "typecase" family².


Footnotes: 
¹ http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_case_.htm
² http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_tpcase.htm

-- 
Steven E. Harris