request switch statement with common block

[Andre Artus]

On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 11:32:14 UTC, QAston wrote:
> On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 09:37:11 UTC, dennis luehring wrote:
>
>> this type of sub-branching "de-looping" is slow (if 
>> performance is relevant) and just not foreach-able, and so not 
>> functional-style programming - its called "for loop index 
>> micro management for unknown reasons" - but many programmers 
>> prefer it very much :)
>
> It's caused by lack of inner functions in many languages - 
> people use switch+flags or for loops to be more DRY.

I was under the impression that D has nested functions, unless by 
inner function you mean something else.