Re: switch statement
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Mar 26, 2009
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I will say it again, because you might have missed it, but switch was decided to be added due to it being able to reduce the amount of work on the programmer. Fall thru was decided upon because it's the defacto standard for a switch statement, it's more powerful and we already have the capability of doing non-fall thru decisions.
Well, firstly, "switch" is only standard for C-syntax based languages. EU is not one of them. Secondly, C's switch supports duff's device which I think EU's does not, so C's is still more powerful. Thirdly, I think of fall-through as a misfeature. But this is subjective, I aggree. Fourthly, Pascal's case supports ranges, "standard switch" does not, so one could argue that Pascal's case is more powerful.
I ask again, have you read any of this thread actually? Also, switch is only C based languages? how many have you used? Switch can be found all over, but who cares if it is from a C based language? I was not aware that we are bound by our lineage, that's a new rule to me in developing a language.
I'm going to suggest this again, please thread the thread. Any more silly questions/statements, I'm simply going to ignore, I have better things to do that to repeat what has already been said and demonstraighted.
Jeremy
