Re: New switch/case idea
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Apr 07, 2009
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At the moment we have the same situation with the return keyword. I used to just stick a return in a function to have it ignore the code below, though that would generate a warning.
With multiline coments though, do we really still need this?
Absolutely. If I'm testing something and want to quickly disable 7 blocks of code, I need the break and to force me to block comment would be a huge drain.
I disagree totally here. break can introduce bugs as it changes the logical flow of your code. You may be breaking to a place you didn't count on. When you comment the code out, you comment it out and it's gone. You know what I mean by block/multi-line comments, right?
This is now valid in Euphoria:
if TRUE then a = 10 b = 20 -- there is some bug here, let's get rid of this code /* a = b * 20 b = c * 90 d = a + b / 39 */ end if
That whole block of code is now gone from IL. It's all a comment. There is no reason to:
if TRUE then a = 10 b = 20 -- there is some bug here, let's get rid of this code --a = b * 20 --b = c * 90 --d = a + b / 39 end if
anymore since we have multi-line comments. A multi-line comment is much more clear, robust and much less error prone then trying to use break or goto to skip a section of code that you are testing/not testing.
Jeremy
