Pattern matching in D

[BCS]

Hello Walter,

> retard wrote:
> 
>> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:59:37 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 
>>> BCS wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I think (from context in other strands) that the OP was referring
>>>> to value, not type, pattern matching.
>>>> 
>>> Value pattern matching is just a regular switch statement.
>>> 
>> So what types does the regular switch accept in D 2 ?
>> 
> I already posted the way to do type pattern matching.
> 

I think what retard was asking was what types are legal as the argument for 
a switch?

IIRC the list is: all the arithmetic types and the string types.

The value pattern matching that is being asked for would allow just about 
anything that has a compile time literal syntax:

void fn(int[] ar)
{
   switch(ar)
   {
      case [1,2,3]: ... break;
      case [1,2,4]: ... break;
      case [1,3,2]: ... break;
   }

}

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