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2. Re: Reserved word Select

• Posted by jeremy (admin) Mar 28, 2009
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Arthur,

We are currently debating, see New Switch Idea how we will work with switch and/or select. Right now everyone is leaning toward never implementing select, but making switch act like select but give it a modifier to allow fallthru or not. For instance:

switch 1 do 
    case 1: ? 1 
    case 2: ? 2 
end switch 
 
-- Output: 
-- 1 

Now, if you supply a with fallthru then fallthru is active:

switch 1 do 
    case 1: ? 1 
    case 2: ? 2 
    case 3: ? 3   break 
    case 4: ? 4 
end switch 
 
-- Output: 
-- 1 
-- 2 
-- 3 

Depending on the outcome of the discussion, we will or will not implement select for version 4.0. If we decide that select is the way to go, then we will implement it in 4.0, not a later version. If we decide against select, then we will not implement it in 4.0, 4.1 or 4.99, because switch will have select and switch functionality. It then leaves that keyword open for variable names or routine names.

Jeremy