Case Range Statement ..

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Walter
Bright<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Unknown W.
>> Brackets<unknown at simplemachines.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have not read this entire topic, but what about the following:
>>>
>>> case 5, .., 9:
>>
>> I don't have a problem with the current syntax, but the mathematical
>> side of my brain squealed with fanboyish glee when it saw this.  This
>> would be FANTASTIC.
>
> At some point, we need to just move on with this. As to ,.., I suggest is it
> not visually very distinct in many fonts (the comma and the .) and may lead
> to frustrating syntax errors.
>
> While there are many "programmers' fonts" that do a good job making the
> characters all distinguishable, the language shouldn't rely too heavily on
> that. There's already enough trouble with 0 and O.

int O_O = 0_0;