static switch

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/5/14, 11:40 AM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 at 18:58:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> The one difficulty is figuring how to allow for all iterations to stay
>> in the same scope, yet not have duplicate definitions of the iteration
>> symbol. Probably worth a DIP. Other than that, we're a go.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Do you have an idea of how to solve that? If not I have an idea but it
> is a little silly and it would introduce a new feature so I would rather
> wait and hear if there are any other solutions.

My idea revolves around replacing the iteration variable(s) with the 
respective literal(s) before doing semantic analysis. This is probably 
unprecedented.

Andrei