Case Range Statement ..

[Walter Bright]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> I think what Jerome is getting at is that we could be getting more
> mileage out of the xpr1..xpr2 syntax.  It would be useful syntax for
> more than just integral, dense ranges in foreach and slices.  The
> equivalents I've used or seen in Ruby, Python and Matlab are more
> versatile than D's.  Perhaps that can't be translated in any useful
> way to a static language like D, I dunno.  But it leaves one with the
> feeling that D's slice literals are underpowered and that the case
> range thing is just plugging a hole in a dilapidated boat rather than
> building us a nice new sleek yacht.

How are python's so much better?

1. python's ranges are exclusive of the endpoint

2. python doesn't have a switch statement, so case ranges being better 
in python makes no sense