Re: New switch/case idea
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Apr 06, 2009
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DerekParnell said...
Fernando said...
If the break is not the last statement of the case and if it works as in C language, then break has an effect: it aborts the switch statement immediately.
That should still work in Euphoria too, but it doesn't at the moment. I think this is a bug. To get it to work currently you have to add a label to the break clause...
switch X label "A" do case 1 then . . . if cond then break "A" end if
It's not a bug. It's how the break statement works. Originally, break was added to to exit out of an if block. We didn't want to use exit, since code like this is common:
while x do if foo(x) then exit end if end while
Using similar logic, we decided to use break for the switch statement, and keep exit for loops.
Matt
